The Joan of Arc museum at Chinon, France has a charred bone fragment reputed to belong to Joan of Arc.
The Plantagenets' administrative center was located in Chinon, west of Tours.
Claude-Marie-Mécène Marié de l'Isle (born Château-Chinon, 1811, died Paris, 1882) was a French musician and opera singer.
Pierre Tabart (Chinon, 1645 – Meaux, 1716) was a French composer and maître de chapelle.
He was also the squire who accompanied Joan Of Arc to Chinon with Jean De Metz and other appointed escorts, and (along with De Metz) continued to accompany Joan on her adventures throughout her military career, until her capture at Compiègne in March of 1430.
In 1204 de Burgh was given charge of the great castle of Chinon.
# Jeanne (d. 1389, Sens), Lady of Château-Chinon, married first in 1342/3 Walter VI of Brienne, married second in 1357 Louis II d'Évreux, Count of Étampes (1336–1400)