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Clos Lucé is a mansion in Amboise
Amboise

Amboise is a commune in France in the Indre-et-Loire Departments of France in central France. It lies on the banks of the Loire River, 14 miles east of Tours....
, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
, located 500 metres from the royal Château d'Amboise
Château d'Amboise

The royal Ch?teau at Amboise is a ch?teau located in Amboise, in the Indre-et-Loire d?partement in France of the Loire Valley in France....
, to which it is connected by an underground passageway. Built by Étienne le Loup in the middle of the fifteenth century, it was acquired in 1490 by King Charles VIII of France
Charles VIII of France

Charles VIII, called the Affable, , was List of French monarchs from 1483 to his death. Charles was a member of the House of Valois. His invasion of Italy initiated the long series of Italian Wars which characterized the first half of the 16th century....
 for his wife, Anne de Bretagne.






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Clos Lucé is a mansion in Amboise
Amboise

Amboise is a commune in France in the Indre-et-Loire Departments of France in central France. It lies on the banks of the Loire River, 14 miles east of Tours....
, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
, located 500 metres from the royal Château d'Amboise
Château d'Amboise

The royal Ch?teau at Amboise is a ch?teau located in Amboise, in the Indre-et-Loire d?partement in France of the Loire Valley in France....
, to which it is connected by an underground passageway. Built by Étienne le Loup in the middle of the fifteenth century, it was acquired in 1490 by King Charles VIII of France
Charles VIII of France

Charles VIII, called the Affable, , was List of French monarchs from 1483 to his death. Charles was a member of the House of Valois. His invasion of Italy initiated the long series of Italian Wars which characterized the first half of the 16th century....
 for his wife, Anne de Bretagne. Later, it was used by King François I
Francis I of France

Francis I , was crowned King of France in 1515 in the cathedral at Reims and reigned until 1547.Francis I is considered to be France's first Renaissance monarch....
, as well his sister, Marguerite de Navarre
Marguerite de Navarre

Marguerite de Navarre , also known as Marguerite of Angouleme and Margaret of Navarre, was the queen consort of King Henry II of Navarre....
 who began to write her book titled L'Heptaméron
Heptameron

The Heptameron is a collection of 72 short stories written in French language by Marguerite of Navarre . It has the form of a frame narrative and was inspired by the Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio....
 while living there.

In 1516, King François I invited Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italy polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, Painting, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer....
 to Amboise and provided him with the Clos Lucé as a place to stay and to work. Leonardo, a famous painter and inventor, arrived with three samples of his painting, namely the Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa is a 16th century portrait painting painted in oil painting on a poplar panel painting by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance....
, Sainte Anne
The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist

The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist, sometimes called The Burlington House Cartoon, is a full-size cartoon by Leonardo da Vinci....
, and Saint Jean Baptiste
St. John the Baptist (Leonardo)

St. John the Baptist is an oil painting on walnut wood by the artist Leonardo da Vinci. Completed from 1513 to 1516, when the High Renaissance was metamorphosing into Mannerism, it is believed to be his last painting....
. Leonardo lived at the Clos Lucé for the last three years of his life until his death inside it on 2 May 1519.

Today, the Clos Lucé mansion is a museum
Museum

A museum is a "permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment, for the purposes of education, study, and entertainment", as defined by the International Coun...
 that reflects the prestigious history of the region and includes forty models of the various machines designed by Leonardo.

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