During World War Two some of France’s most precious works of art were hidden in chateaux and abbeys throughout France. One of the locations was Chambord, in the Sologne which preserved Leonardo De Vinci’s Mona Lisa as well as countless other works of art and kept them out of the hands of the Nazi regime. Built by the Monarch, Francis I in the 1500’s the chateau is the largest of all French chateaux. Its walls hid not only artwork during WW2, but also Jewish refugee children. An exhibit at the chateau explores this dark time in its history.