Castle of Pailly

The castle of Pailly is located on the commune of Pailly, to 13 km of Langres, in Haute-Marne. He is regarded as the most prestigious example of Renaissance architecture of the Champagne-Ardenne. The castle of Pailly is of style ionic and Corinthian. The castle is classified historic building.

Presentation

Of its feudal origin, it preserves only the Donjon. The unit forms the three sides of a quadrilateral surrounded by Douves out of water. The frontages on court are decorated beautiful columns and pilasters.

The park of the castle reveals a superb alley of limes orchestrated in " marquise". In the garden, a vast wooded piece is composed of remarkable and rare trees like the to drown black of America, the Catalpa or the pink chestnut tree. The garden with the Frenchwoman was refitted at the end of the XIXème century by the family of Breuil of Saint-Germain. The central prospect is completed on a room of greenery from where one can contemplate the South-eastern frontage of the castle. The garden presents remarkable water parts in addition.

History

“Floret of the Rebirth”, the castle of Pailly was built with between 1563 and 1573, the site of an old castle, for “the very noble and very famous” Gaspard de Saulx-Tavannes, Marshal of France, comrade in arms of the king François Ier by the architect langrois Nicolas Ribonnier.

The files indeed mention the existence of an old castle of plain at the 13th century. This last would have been destroyed entirely in reprisals with the oppression of the local lord. At the end of XVe century, Jean de Dommarien, lord of Pailly, undertake to make a fortified town of it. From this time only the Donjon remains. To died from Jean de Dommarien, which does not leave any heir, the castle is allocated to the bishop of Langres. Then the Saulx-Tavannes family repurchases the rights of seigniory and Gaspard de Saulx-Tavannes decides the rebuilding of the castles and established there its residence.

Gradually then abandoned by the family of Saulx-Tavannes, it was bought by a family inhabitant of Franche-Compt3e in 1764, it “was invaded and plundered by people of Heuilley Cotton in 1793”, into full Révolution. It then is confiscated and sold by the central administration of the Haute-Marne in 1799. The castle takes again life at the end of the Napoleonean period thanks to the family of Breuil of Saint-Germain who acquires it in 1821. Of Breuil of Saint-Germain restore the up to date turret, the vault, the chimneys, the low-relief, the attic window of the house of the staircase on court and the garden with the Frenchwoman most probably refitted at the end of the XIXe century or at the beginning of XXe. The family will yield it in 1936 to the agricultural Mutual insurance companies of the East.

During the Second world war, the Germans will install the Kommandantur there.

It is state-owned property since 1963.

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