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Ch�teauesque is a revival architectural style based on the French Renaissance architecture of the monumental French country houses (ch�teaux) built in the Loire Valley from the late fifteenth century to the early seventeenth century. The style frequently features buildings incongruously ornamented by the elaborate towers, spires, and steeply-pitched roofs of sixteenth century ch�teaux, themselves influenced by late Gothic and Italian Renaissance architecture. Despite their French ornamentation, as a revival style, buildings in the ch�teauesque style do not attempt to completely emulate a French ch�teau. Ch�teauesque buildings are typically built on an asymmetrical plan with a roof-line broken in several places and a facade composed of advancing and receding planes. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teauesque)
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