Come and discover the reception rooms and the prefect’s office!

Name: Come and discover the reception rooms and the prefect’s office!
Start: 2022-09-17T09:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Préfecture de Loir-et-Cher

François Pesneau, Prefect of Loir-et-Cher, invites you to participate in the guided tours organized in the reception rooms of his residence.

Access the event online

Saturday 17 September 2022, 09:30, 10:30, 11:30, 14:15, 15:15, 16:15Passed

Conditions

20 people maximum per group

Registration

Préfecture de Loir-et-Cher

Modality of visits:

Saturday 17 September only, 45-minute guided tours, with prior registration on the prefecture’s website
6 slots of guided tours are proposed as follows: 9.30 am, 10.30 am and 11.30 am; 2.15 pm, 3.15 pm and 4.15 pm in the afternoon;
each group is limited to 20 people.
Program:
word of welcome in the courtyard of honor of the prefecture, visit of the lounges of the hotel of the prefecture, presentation of the garden, visit of the office of Mister the prefect in his presence.

About the location

Préfecture de Loir-et-Cher

Place de la République 41000 Blois

Loir-et-Cher
Centre-Val de Loire

Big(Great) building(ship) of rectangular plan with garden in the front and park sported in the back. The main facade gets organised around a central forepart, in double doric and ionic portico(gantry) crowned with a front wall(pediment). This neoclassical building(ship) characterises the sobriety of the public architecture of 1830s. The hotel of the prefecture receives(holds) the very beautiful whole furniture of the XIXth century (of time(period) Charles X) among which a lounge(show) and a billiards(billiard table) conceived(designed) for this house by the cabinet maker Bellangé, supplier of the crown. Some beautiful furniture of time(period) of the XVIIIth century of sometimes prestigious provenance softens line sober of these a bit severe rooms(parts,plays), in the characteristic woodworks of 1830s. Responding to his/her/its vocation, this house is the place of welcome(reception) by the prefect of many personalities and of several hundred people, from all social, professional and invited backgrounds every year to participate in one of many organised ceremonies.