 It is also one of the very first example of a renaissance architecture in France.Montsoreau was built in 1453 by Jean II de Chambes (first counselor of Charles VII of France and ambassador of France to Venice and to Turkey) by order of the king soon after the end of the Hundred's years war.The French dramatist Alexandre Dumas made the château de Montsoreau world famous with its trilogy on the French Wars of Religion of which "the lady of Monsoreau" is the second volume.