When her husband, Henry II, died in 1559, she forced his mistress, Diane de Poitiers, to exchange Ch*teau de Chaumont for Ch*teau de Chenonceau, which Henry had given to de Poitiers. Diane de Poitiers only lived at Chaumont for a short while. In 1594, at the death of Diane's granddaughter Charlotte de la Marck, the ch*teau passed to her husband, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon, who sold it to a tax farmer Largentier, who had grown rich on gathering in the salt tax called the gabelle.
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Charlotte de la Marck