Châteaudun, southwest of Paris on the banks of the Loire, is dominated by its Château (10th-16th C.). Of interest in the old town are the church of the Madeleine and a number of old houses (mainly in Rue St-Lubin and Rue des Huiteries). The newer part of the town was laid out in 1723, after a fire, to the design of Jules Hardouin-Mansart. The
principal features of interest are the Museum (prehistoric, Egyptian and medieval antiquities; ornithological collection) and the cemetery, with a fine doorway from the chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Champdé, destroyed at the end of the 19th C.