Amboise

Amboise is a town on the Loire in central France whose château was once a residence of the French royal court and the scene of a failed Huguenot conspiracy in 1560. Leonardo da Vinci spent his last years at the nearby manor of Clos Lucé from 1516 and died there in 1519; he was buried at Amboise. The Algerian resistance leader and Sufi scholar Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri (d. 1883), after surrendering to the French, was held with his family at the château from November 1848 until Napoleon III freed him in 1852.