Aube

Grand Est

Château de Vaux

Designed in 1721 by Germain Boffrand, architect to the Duke of Lorraine, Vaux raises a Regency facade of pale Tonnerre stone in the southern Aube, crowned with carved children and unicorns. Home of Maupas, a minister of Napoleon III, it was abandoned on the eve of World War II, stripped of its…

Grand Est

Château de Dampierre

A 17th-century residence attributed to François Mansart rises behind the gatehouse of a vanished fortress. Dampierre kept its grand staircase and vaulted medieval kitchen, even after its interiors were stripped in the 1930s. Bought at auction in 2021 by Antoni Calmon, a devoted doctor, this château…

Grand Est

Château de Pouy-sur-Vannes

A cube capped by a tall tiled pyramid and flanked by four towers, Pouy-sur-Vannes wears eight centuries of history on its facades, from a 12th-century fortress built to defend Sens to the changes of the 17th and 18th centuries. Home of the Le Bascle d'Argenteuil family, then a hotel of the Legion…