Claude-Xavier Carvillon of Tillières
Claude-Xavier Carvillon of Tillières († 1812), known as also Carvillon-Destillières (sometimes spelled Caroillon-Destillières ), was one of four wire of Nicolas Carvillon, general receiver and trader, who had made a great fortune. The four brothers had created a company, in which Denis Diderot was associated, which exploited forging mills in Normandy. The company was dissolved at the beginning of the French revolution and Claude-Xavier scrambled himself with his older brother, Abel Carvillon de Vandeul.
In 1788, agent of the heir to the duchess of Kingston, colonel Philip Glower off Wispington, it bought the to him Château of Holy-Base to Seine-Port (current department of the Seine-et-Marne). In 1790, it was named commander-in-chief of the three companies of the National guard consisted the communes of Saint-Port (Seine-Port) and Cesson. In the vault of the castle, he married on February 9th 1791 Francoise Aimée Magallon d' Amirail, girl of an officer grower of Saint-Domingue. He was briefly imprisoned under the Terreur but was released by the Thermidor 9.
Carvillon of Tillières undertook to parcel out the field consisted Madam de Montesson. It sold the house of this one in the village, yielded in 1794 the kitchen garden to Charles Louis Cadet by Gassicourt, pharmacist and man of letters and the firm Dutchwoman with the surgeon Jean-Jacques Segard. In 1795, it sold the pump with fire and the small house located in top of the park, the houses framing the grid of honor, then finally exchanged with Guillaume-Joseph de Casaux the castle and what remained park against a castle located close to Tournan-in-Brie.
In 1801, Carvillon of Tillières bought the Château of Pontchartrain and the grounds while depending with Jouars-Pontchartrain and Maurepas. It made transform the gardens with the Frenchwoman into landscape gardens by Louis-Martin Berthault.
In 1801, it also bought the Château of Raincy which was then rented with the munitionnaire Gabriel-Julien Ouvrard. This last bought it in 1806 but made bankruptcy the following year so that Carvillon of Tillières the castle recovered which it rented with the general Junot.
With its death in 1812, Carvillon of Tillières left an immense fortune and an only daughter, Aimée Carvillon of Tillières, which, although equipped with a not very advantageous physique, was coveted by the best parties of France. It got rid of them all, even the Duc of Rohan, and ends up marrying in 1817 the count d' Osmond, brother of the Comtesse of Boigne. She held, under the Monarchie of July, an elegant living room.
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