Castle of Rambuteau

The castle of Rambuteau is located on the territory of the Commune of Ozolles.

History of the stronghold and castle of Rambuteau

In 1603, the stronghold of Rambuteau in Mâconnais consists of a closed house of walls, trenched in some places, around which are five small towers and bridge levis, more of the grounds and the meadows.

The Castle, wrote Courtépée in 1777, is surrounded in the space of one mile 18 new fields, built well out of stones, covers of tiles, whose principal door looks at the house seigneuriale. There are 32 similar with their eases in the space of three lieus to the round which forms the extent of the ground of Rambuteau.

The current Castle is built in 1840 by Claude-Philibert Barthelot Count de Rambuteau with the site of a building of 1777, itself built on a building of XVIe century of which there remains only one tower and a vault. The rise is treated in the style in the beginning in the XVIIIe century (roofs with croups, frontages with central fore-part in light setback, wings in return…). The interior includes/understands a succession of parts in style néo-Louis 16. A park was arranged by integrating there the old vault redécorée into the XIXe century.

the architects are: Paul of MONTCLOS (architect), Jean-Marie MOREL (landscape gardener) Groin CURTENI (landscape gardener), DUCHENE (landscape gardener) February 21st, 2002 Historic buildings are classified: The castle, dependences, including roughing-hew it, the vault, the frontages and roofs of the farm. February 22nd, 2000 are registered Historic building: the park, the regular garden, the kitchen garden, two half-moons of entry (ground, walls, statues, gate and fences), including the two ponds of the Refrigerator and the new pond, the channel and, entirely: the orangery-greenhouse, the refrigerator, ruins of the tower.

The family of Rambuteau

Claude Barthelot de Rambuteau was prosecutor of the king with in 1537. Its descendants provided lieutenants of the king to Mâcon, advisers with the Parlement of Burgundy, officers with the armies of France.

The last of the name was Claude-Philibert Barthelot de Rambuteau which left three girls. One of them, Marie Louise Antoinette de Rambuteau, widow of the Count de Rocca devoted his forturne to the foundation at two hospital houses for the veillards and the orphans and served the poor under the name of Sœur Marie Louise de Chantal. She died in 1880 after having yielded the two establishments to the department of Saône-et-Loire.

The title of Count de Rambuteau was raised by a neuveu, Mr. Philibert Lombard de Buffières (1838 - 1912), captain of the mobiles of the Saone and the Loire in 1870, prefect of the Pas-de-Calais and Haute-Garonne, adviser of State of 1875 to 1879.

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