Dedication of the comic «La Comtesse Aelis, en visite au château de Villeneuve-la-Comtesse» by her author

Name: Dedication of the comic «La Comtesse Aelis, en visite au château de Villeneuve-la-Comtesse» by her author
Start: 2022-09-17T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Château de Villeneuve-la-Comtesse

Bernadette Despres, author-draughtsman of Tom Tom and Nana, will dedicate her comic strip «The Countess Aelis, visiting the castle of Villeneuve-la-Comtesse»!

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

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Bernadette Despres, author-draughtsman of Tom Tom and Nana, will dedicate her comic strip «The Countess Aelis, visiting the castle of Villeneuve-la-Comtesse»!

She puts in pictures the ghost of Aelis, Countess of Eu having lived in the castle of Villeneuve-la-Comtesse in the thirteenth century, and Pierre Soulard, owner of the castle 700 years later, in a magical visit...

About the location

Château de Villeneuve-la-Comtesse

L’Ouche du Bois, 17330 Villeneuve-la-Comtesse

Charente-Maritime
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Château de Villeneuve La Comtesse is a plain castle, located north of the Saintonge, southwest of the Chizé forest, between Niort (Deux-Sèvres) and Saint Jean d'Angély (Charente Maritime), in the town of Villeneuve La Comtesse.
Born of the Hundred Years' War, it is a unique example of medieval military architecture from the time of Charles VII and Scottish inspiration. The construction of the castle was carried out at the beginning of the 15th century by a Scottish family very close to Charles VII, the Chamber’s. Then, by marriage in 1528, the châtellenie became the property of the Laurencie family until 1843, date of the purchase of the castle and the adjoining lands by the Leculliez family. In 1936, her owner, Élisabeth Leculliez, and her husband, Roger Soulard, a doctor at Tonnay-Boutonne, had the dungeon roof, drawbridge and walls restored.
The Castle was listed in the Supplementary Inventory of Historic Monuments in September 1949\. Since 1968, one of their children, Pierre Soular