Burgundy-Franche-Comté

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…

Burgundy-Franche-Comté

Château du Feÿ

Home of a councillor to Louis XIII, then a cooking school where Julia Child was a guest in the 1980s, then a "château of possibilities" open to artists and festivities: Le Feÿ has changed lives many times. This large 17th-century house, built on a single level and known for its protected paneling,…

Burgundy-Franche-Comté

Château d’Annéot

The château d'Annéot presents the understated silhouette of a classical residence, built at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries on the foundations of an older manor, in the Yonne.

Burgundy-Franche-Comté

Château de Chastellux

Twenty-eight generations of one family have lived at Chastellux, a fortress on a granite peak above the Cure River, long said to be impregnable. Enlarged under Saint Louis and again in 1414, reworked in every century since, it gave France François-Jean de Chastellux, a member of the Académie…

Burgundy-Franche-Comté

Château de Meauce

A round château on a narrow rocky spur above the Allier river, Meauce still has its 1380 roof frame, its complete wall walk and the marks of every family that has held it since around the year 1000. Empty since 1830, this château in the Nièvre was vanishing under vegetation when Cédric Mignon…

Burgundy-Franche-Comté

Château de Digoine

A neoclassical facade to the south, an English-style park to the north: Digoine has two faces. The Reclesne family built it in the 18th century on a medieval castle's towers in Burgundy's Charolais area. Napoleon's aide the Count of Chabrillan added a Gothic Revival library, a greenhouse and a…