Maulnes did not stand alone in his confessional positioning in relation to the epoch's conflicts over faith, and in the second part of the book this is placed in the context of comparable programmatic building by the royal court, by confessional partisans and supporters of civil tolerance. The Chateau de Maulnes, which has survived to a significant extent, was recorded in full detail in eighteen survey campaigns, and subjected to comprehensive architectural research. The result was a documentation of this key French Renaissance building which made it possible also to answer questions about the sense and significance of the overall concept and about the individual architectural forms.
