Côte-d'Or

Burgundy-Franche-Comté

Château de Chevigny-en-Valière

Doors from the old Russian embassy, a foyer from the Place des Victoires, marble troughs saved from a Paris store: Louis Brossard filled his château in Burgundy with the lost interiors of Haussmann's Paris. Over 35 years, this man of leisure from Beaune turned a winegrower's farm into a folly,…

Burgundy-Franche-Comté

Château de Savigny lès Beaune

A 14th-century fortress torn down and rebuilt around an open courtyard in the 15th, the Château de Savigny-lès-Beaune once held the Duchess of Maine under house arrest. Today it is one of the most unusual collections of machines in Europe. The Pont family, winemakers on the Côte de Beaune, bought…

Burgundy-Franche-Comté

Château de Ménessaire

More fortified house than château, Ménessaire guarded the Duchy of Burgundy's border with the Nivernais before becoming, in the Renaissance, a country retreat with painted ceilings. This moated square in the Morvan hills, flanked by towers, was an unsellable ruin when interior designer Bernard…