Maubourg

The field of Maubourg and Faÿ of the Turn-Maubourg (or Latour-Maubourg)

The field of Maubourg, halfway between Saint-Etienne and Puy, in the commune of Saint-Maurice-with-Lignon, is a place of memory. It was the seat of important a baronnie diocésaine of Velay as from the 16th century which also included the castle of the Tower and Sainte Ségolène.

There remains about it a whole of parks (" large park and small parc") of 33 hectares, surrounded by a stone wall, which including/understanding several remarkable trees, a four century old beech and two oaks of more than three centuries. The small park was built on the plans of an English landscape designer of beginning of the XIXe.

The buildings consist of a tower, vestige of the old castle, a refrigerator, rather rare construction, an orangery, built at the 18th century by the Marshal of the Turn-Maubourg, and the castle, composed of four buildings surrounding a rectangular court.

The entry of honor is on the western frontage. On the left the large staircase is located then, in the northern wing, the parts of service. On the right of the entry, the rooms of reception: an anteroom, the dining room, a succession of three living rooms, a large part and the library on the frontage is. On this same frontage is, after a passage arches giving access to the interior court, is the vault.

On the floor, above the rooms of reception is the room of the Marquis followed by the room of Lafayette, of the rooms of pageantry and the living rooms, and with the angle of the southern wing and the wing is, the room of the Marchioness. The decorations former to the Collieries of the Loire remain only in the library, the big room and the vault. One can also admire the chimneys and the parquet floors, in elm or wild cherry tree.

This castle was built at the beginning of the 19th century. The old castle, destroyed under the Revolution, was composed of three turns (oldest was to go back to the 11th century) and of body of buildings.

The generations which followed one another there recover two families, Malet during the Moyen-âge, then Faÿ, as from the 16th century.

Origins at the 16th century: the Time of the Foundation

We have little information on the origins stronghold Maubourg. At the 11th century, the Malet family pays homage to the bishop of Puy from there but the origins of the site are much older. A member of this family, Etienne Malet will be Abbé of Chair-God of 1347 to 1350 then bishop of Elne in 1350 and 1351 and finally of Tortose of 1351 to 1356.

In 1527, Marguerite, downward last of the family, marry Christophe de Faÿ, small son of a Chamberlain of the king Charles VII. Such is the origin of Faÿ of the Turn-Maubourg (name also spelled Faÿ de Latour-Maubourg)

Faÿ are a very former family originating in the borders of the Velay and Vivarais. Some of its members will take part in the 1st Croisade. The elder branch dies out with Philippa de Faÿ, married about 1185 in Aymar of Poitiers, Count de Valentinois. But of many branches juniors will remain.

A score of Knights of the Order of Midsummer's Day of Jerusalem (Order of Malta) result from the family and much will leave their life during engagements. Two of them will occupy the important function of Large Prior of Auvergne, Pons de Faÿ in 1309 and Raynaud de Faÿ of 1347 to 1351.

As for Marguerite, charitable, but too dedicated to the eyes of her husband, a a long time oral tradition brings back the following event: One morning of January, Marguerite leaves early to carry provisions to an needy family. Making way, it is found vis-a-vis her husband, party to drive out.

- What you under your coat have, questions it.

- Oh, they are only some flowers, answers it, disturbed.

- flowers, exclaims the husband! He draws aside the coat and one brewed of pinks and daisies fall on the ground, embaumant the air of their perfume.

A close event is found in the life of Holy Elisabeth of Hungary. Marguerite would have been buried on the spot of the miracle. The vault, rebuilt at the 19th century, exists always, rather far away from the castle.

With the following generation, Jean de Faÿ of the Turn-Maubourg, Seneshal of Velay and General Maréchal of the Home of the cavalry of France under Charles IX is distinguished in defense from Velay against the Protestant armies from the Baron from the Adrets. Married to Marguerite of the Rainwash, they will have thirteen children

17th century: the Order of Malta

At that time that Maubourg will receive on several occasions the visit of Saint Jean François Régis, " a holy friendship linked it with the Maubourg" Tower;. One of wire of the family of Maubourg would have profited thereafter from a cure in front of the tomb of Jean François Régis.

At the end of the 16th century and at the beginning of the 17th century, two family members will become bishop, one of Poitiers in 1568, the other of Uzès in 1614, two others (fore-mentioned Guillaume and Nicolas) will be Prieurs of Chamalières and another, Jean de Faÿ of the Turn-Maubourg, knight of Malta will be Grand Baillif of Lyon of 1644 to 1650. Two members of another branch of the family, Just and Charles de Faÿ de Gerlande, knights of Malta will be also Grand Baillif of Lyon, the first of 1633 to 1644, the second of 1660 to 1666.

In 1642, the Large Baillif de Morée (Peloponnese), Jean de Faÿ de Peyraud (other connects of the family) is killed in a combat against the Turks.

Jean Hector de Faÿ of the Turn-Maubourg, known as “the Commander of Latour”, knight of Malta, Commander of Chambéry and Sète, orders in 1667 a battalion of 400 knights of Malta to the seat of Crystallized. He left a handwritten quotation of it. Thereafter, it orders the troops about Malta associated with those with the Republic with Venice and the Papal States in Morée. It will be killed in a victorious seat with Coron in 1685. It is buried in the cathedral Midsummer's Day Baptiste of Valetta. In 1462 a Faÿ family member, ordering the troops about Malta, had been killed already during a victorious combat against the Turks in Morée, which will make say later: “One wondered what was most fatal, Morée with the family of Faÿ or the family of Faÿ to Morée”.

18th century: the War and Court

In first half of the 18th century, three brothers will mark Maubourg. Jean Philibert de Faÿ of the Turn-Maubourg (1679 - 1759), also Chevalier of Malta is Général of Galères. Commander of Beugnets and Montchamp, it will become Grand Baillif of Lyon in 1749 and Grand Marshal about Malta little before his death.

Joseph de Faÿ of the Maubourg Tower. Commander about Malta, will be Canon-Count de Lyon in 1718 and Abbé of Beaulieu (diocese of the Mans) in 1747.

Jean Hector de Fay of the Turn-Maubourg (1684 - 1764), will carry out a brilliant military career. In 1703, it raises a regiment of infantry with her own resources. In 1707, he is Colonel of the regiment of Ponthieux. The following year, during the War of succession of Spain, it opens with its troops the way of the collar of Galibier and prevents the blockade of Briançon. It takes part in the tender of Majorque in 1715. General inspector of the infantry of 1718 to 1752, general Lieutenant in 1738. It is employed with the army of Flandres under the orders of the Marshal of Noailles, then with the army of the Rhine under the orders of Prince de Conti. It is distinguished with the battles from Ramillies and Rocourt where it is wounded. It keeps the person of the King to the Bataille of Lauffeld then order, in 1747, the Dutch Flanders.

Knight of the Order of the Holy Spirit in 1748, it becomes in 1754 then Gouverneur of Saint-Malo. Louis XV names it Marshal of France in 1757.

This large captain doubles of an advised businessman. He inherits his mother and acquires important grounds in Burgundy: he is baron de Clessy, Seigneur of Chassy, Essanlès and other places. He bases with Gueugnon forging mills, on a localization which he baptizes Villefay, of the name of its family. The work of installation, started into 1719 is prolonged until 1740. The Letters patent authorizing it to exploit these establishments are signed by the King in 1724. The forging mills form a complete industrial complex with two Blast furnaces and three Fires of Forging mills. The annual production reaches 1.000 tons per annum. This important establishment always exists and made the reputation of the places. In Gueugnon, Jean Hector of the Turn-Maubourg also installs fairs, attended until the end of the 19th century and creates a channel starting from the river Arroux. This last project will give rise to a long conflict with the other landowners, but it will lead, thereafter, with the creation of shipyards along Arroux. The Marshal of the Turn-Maubourg also will contribute considerably to improve town planning of Gueugnon. In Velay, It will repurchase important the baronnie Dunières.

In first wedding, he marries the girl of the Maréchal of Vieuville, in second the girl of the Marshal Bazin de Bezon and in third, Agnès de Trudaine, girl of the Prévôt of the merchants of Paris. Of these unions, it will have only girls. The elder one will marry Charles de Faÿ, Marquis de Gerlande, the second will marry the Count de Barbançon and will inherit the forging mills of Gueugnon and the grounds of Burgundy. The last, married to François Charles of Montmorency-Luxembourg, Prince de Tingry, wire of a Marshal of France, will die without child shortly after her marriage.

In Paris, the Marshal of the Turn-Maubourg will first of all reside Vendôme place at number 10, then street of Game preserve to number 59, in a private mansion (destroyed today) that it will make modify by the architect Jean-Baptiste Leroux

To its death, not having a male heir, Maubourg passes then to the hands of a branch junior by Faÿ of the Turn-Maubourg, the Lords of Coïsse, who will raise the name.

Revolution with the Restoration: the Time of the Soldiers

Again, three brothers will mark Maubourg and establish the family in the Parisian mediums. The elder one, Charles César de Fay of the Turn-Maubourg (1756 1831) plays an important political role at the time of the Revolution. Colonel of the Regiment of Soissonnais in 1789, it is elected Député of the nobility of Velay to the State-Generals. He is one of the first deputies to join the Third-State; he takes part in the debates on the annexation of Avignon in France.

Brigadier, friend of Fayette, it is then sent as Commissaire of the Parliament to bring back the royal family of Varenne to Paris. Its role, in this business, will remain misunderstood of the queen Marie-Antoinette. However, in its memories, Mrs. de Tourzel, witness of the facts, pays homage to its devotion towards the royal family.

Imprisoned with Fayette by the Austrians, it returns to France in 1798 and will become member of the legislative Body in 1801, then Imperial Sénat in 1804 like Major general and military Gouverneur of Cherbourg in 1808. It will make there carry out important harbor work. A dubious political attitude at the time of the Hundred Days will exclude it from the Chambre from the Pars until 1819.

César of the Turn-Maubourg will assume the task to make rebuild Maubourg, destroyed by a fire under Terror. The private residences built at the beginning of the 19th century are rare, many emigrants will desert their ancestral grounds. César of the Turn-Maubourg will also take part in the financing of the industrial activities of Pierre Samuel Of the Bridge of Nemours in the United States.

Knight of the Order of Saint-Louis, it will be named Commandeur of the Order of the Legion of Honor by Napoleon.

César de Faÿ of the Turn-Maubourg had married Henriette Pinault de Ténelles, heiress of a member of the Parlement of Douai. They will have a many descent.

The second of the three brothers, Victor Marie Nicolas de Faÿ of the Turn-Maubourg, remains the most famous member of the family. Soldier at 14 years, colonel in Egypt and aide-de-camp of Kléber, it is named Brigadier general after the battle of Bataille of Austerlitz. Large cross of the Order of the Meeting, it becomes Major general and takes part in the campaigns of Prussia and Poland. Sent in Spain, it is characterized by its boldness but also by its integrity and its humanity towards the populations. Wounded on several occasions, in Friedland inter alia, it takes part in the countryside of Russia where it is charged with the Bataillon Crowned, composed only of officers of cavalry.

It orders the 1st body of cavalry in Leipzig, the “battle of the Nations”. It has a leg torn off by a ball of gun. Whereas it is brought back, indicator his servant to cry, it says to him: “Comforts itself, my friend, the evil is not so large for you… After very you will have nothing any more but one boot to wax”. The amputation is practiced by the famous surgeon of the imperial armies Dominique Larrey who notes in his memories: “It accepted a ball of small gauge which crashed to pieces the right knee to him, serious wound which required the amputation of the thigh, claimed by the casualty himself: I immediately practiced it under the gun of the enemy. It was made in less than three minutes. ”

Deeply attached to monarchy, it will join with Louis XVIII which will fill it honors: Marquis in 1817, Large Cross of the order of the Legion of Honor and the Order of Saint Louis and Chevalier of the Order of the Holy Spirit.

Even of France, it will occupy of important functions under the Restauration, President of the Committee of Cavalry, Ambassadeur in London, Ministre for the War and Minister of state in the Cabinet of the Duc Decazes and the Duc of Richelieu. He will be then Gouverneur of the Invalides until 1830. Refusing to recognize the Monarchy of July, it will follow Charles X in exile and will be Gouverneur of the Count de Chambord.

Severe character, this large soldier was probably more at ease on the battle fields that in the living rooms. The count de Basterot, nephew of the last Marquis of the Turn-Maubourg, tells the following anecdote: “Victor of the Turn-Maubourg was invited with a meal where were made same extravagances (broken crockery and crystals). Impassive as long as the scene of destruction had lasted, it rose at the time when these mad guests did not have anything any more to break, but a knife between its teeth, going up on the table without saying a word, climbed in the gloss of which nobody had thought and being put at - califourchon on the most raised part, the cord crossed to which was suspended this gloss… after which it will be dépêtra as it could, took its saber and its hat and, more or less ravaged or wounded, from went away without uttering a word”

Victor of the Turn-Maubourg will defend the monarchical mode of all his forces; its wooden leg played however in its favor, making strong impression on its adversaries. This direction of monarchy will rise at his place beyond the personal interest. In his Memories, the count d' Agoult reports that, Ministre for the War, Victor of the Turn-Maubourg presented to Louis XVIII a document aiming at reducing the number of the Marshals of France. The King says to him: “I sign with regret this ordinance because I intended to appoint you Maréchal” the Minister had made his duty, notes the Count d' Agoult, it will never reach this supreme dignity.

“Glory without cloud”, Victor of the Maubourg Tower particularly seems to be appreciated by its contemporaries. Wellington had a high opinion of him and invited it during its embassy in London, Chateaubriand, on its side, notes in the Mémoires of In addition to-Fall to Book 21, Chapitre 6: “I take off my hat while passing in front of him, as while passing in front of the honor”.

Victor of the Turn-Maubourg will give his name to a Parisian grand boulevard like with a barracks with Valence (Drome), today Latour-Maubourg University center. He made build the castle of Moyeux (Seine-et-Marne).

He had married a Dutchwoman of which he will not have a child. Protestant woman, it converts with Catholicism after her marriage. The Count d' Agoult reports the following event: Madam de Maubourg was reached of hydropisy at the time of the Restoration. The archbishop of Paris spoke to him about the prince abbot of Hohenlohe which enjoyed in the Church a reputation holiness and offered himself to be used as intermediary. The abbot answered that it would celebrate during nine days the mass for Madam of the Turn-Maubourg. He indicated the hour so that she could link herself by the prayer. The ninth day, it went communier. As from this moment, the evil ceased and it recovered all its health!

A portrait of Victor of the Turn-Maubourg and an engraving representing César of the Turn-Maubourg are preserved at the National Gallery of Londres.Victor of the Turn-Maubourg is also reproduced on table " Crown of Charles X in Reims" , of François Gerard, table preserved at the castle of Versailles.

The third brother, Juste-Charles of the Turn-Maubourg (1774 - 1824) will marry the oldest daughter of Fayette. From this union will be born three girls. The second, Jenny, will marry Hector of the Perron of Saint Martin's day. Among their current descent appears the Paola Queen of Belgium.

The Monarchy of July: the Time of the Diplomats

César of the Maubourg Tower will have seven children including four wire. One of them will be killed in the Napoleonean campaigns, the others will carry out brilliant careers in the army and the diplomacy.

The elder one, Just Florimond (1781 - 1837) will begin its career like Auditeur with the Council of State and embassy secretary, which will not prevent it from taking the weapons at the end of the Empire. Ambassador in Dresden then in Constantinople of 1821 to 1823, it will know a time of disgrace at the time of the ministry for the Count de Villèle. But with the Monarchy of July, it will be named ambassador in Rome, Pair of France on a purely hereditary basis and Large Officer of the Legion of Honor . He had married Caroline of the Perron of Martin Saint, widow and fortunate heiress of the prefect Etienne Vincent. He will be the father of César Florimond last Marquis of the Turn-Maubourg.

The second, Rodolphe (1787 - 1871), officer of the campaigns of the Empire will be young Brigadier general in 1821, then Major general under the Monarchy of July. General inspector of Cavalry, Large Officer of the Legion of Honor, it will become Pair of France in 1845 and will withdraw himself with Boissise-the-Bertrand, in a castle which it had repurchased with his sister, the Countess Andréossy.

The third wire, Armand-Septime (1801 - 1845), Licencié be right, will be Maître of the Requests to the Council of State and diplomat. Resigner under the ministry for the Duke of Polignac, he will become then ambassador in Naples, Madrid then in Rome, where he will succeed his brother. Even of France, he will be commander of the Legion of honor. A portrait of his wife, Charlotte de Pange, painted by Theodore Chassériau, was recently acquired by the Metropolitan Museum off Art of New York.

Second Empire: Image of Épinal

The last representatives of Faÿ with Maubourg will be César-Florimond of the Turn-Maubourg (1820 - 1886) and of his wife Anne Mortier of Trévise (1824 - 1900).

Anne Mortier of Trévise is the little girl of the Maréchal Mortar Duke of Trévise, Ministre for the War of king Louis-Philippe and President of the Council, killed in the attack of Fieschi against the king. She is the girl of Napoleon Mortier second Duke of Trévise, Senator of the Second Empire and Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor and of Anne-Marie Leconte Stuart, itself girl of a financier of Saint-Malo and Scottish. Napoleon Mortier of Trévise will make rebuild the castle of Seals, in Paris region.

In 1849, Anne Mortier of Trévise thus marries César Florimond de Faÿ, Marquis of the Turn-Maubourg, officer of cavalry. “By my birth, I was duchess, by my marriage I became marchioness” would have it says at the end of his life while adding “I never regretted it”. A portrait of each of the two husbands will be painted by Winterhalter. The couple will have two children shortly after their marriage, Juste born in 1850 and Nancy, 1852.

The Second Empire constitutes the most brilliant period of the history of Maubourg. The Marquis and the Marchioness occupy of the important public office. César of the Maubourg Tower is Député Haute-Loire during all the Second Empire. At the Court, it occupies the functions of Captain of Huntings and Honorary Chamberlain. It actively takes share with the rebirth of hunting at Cour wanted by Napoleon III. As for its positions as a deputy, they would have evolved of a position strictly Bonapartist to a tendency plus legitimist. Napoleon III will appoint it Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1861. The Marquis of the Turn-Maubourg is represented in a table of Charles Parquet " An appointment of Hunting of Empereur" , preserved at the castle of Compiègnes and in that of Jean Leon Gerome: " Reception of the Siamese ambassadors by the Emperor Napoleon III with the Palate of Fontainebleau in 1861" preserved at the castle of Versailles.

The Marchioness, after having solicited the councils of the Priest of Ars, accepts the function of Lady of the Palate of the Eugenie Empress, function which it will fill during all the Second Empire. It appears in the extreme right-hand side of the famous table of Winterhalter, upright and holding a straw hat with the hand.

The documents of the time stress that the Marquis and the Marchioness were very plain and formed the ideal of the Christian marriage. Mrs. Carette reports the following anecdote: with the Marchioness was one day posed the following question “- What would make if you learn that Maubourg misleads you? ” She answered: “I would be if astonished that I would die about it of surprised”

At the Court, qualities of the couple open out with discretion but without weakness, as various testimonys and of the notebooks indicate it in which the Marchioness consigned with meticulousness the details of the life of the Court. It shown there of a great realism, much of good sense and a certain simplicity. The displays of luxury are not appropriate to him: “One puts on the same dresses, not only several times, but several years with Tileries. The empress gives the example of a great simplicity… If some insane is made make dresses with thousand or fifteen hundred francs at Worth, by dozen, so of foreign transform into headstocks with trousseau… much of ladies make make their dresses at them”. And the Marchioness to conclude “Those which are in good faith know that I am right and the lamentations of expenditure always appeared to me intended to induce the husbands in error to put a little money on side. ”

The Marchioness is not easily deceived play of the ambitions which appears at the Court, " This drawer full with ambitions" . In its notebooks, it stresses that, so at the time of the meals, the places of honor beside the sovereigns is so required it is because “between the sorbet and pie of foie gras, one entrusts readily to his sovereign whom one has a son second secretary since nearly one year, or a father which the Senate needs…”

This great clearness is indissociable, at it, of a corrosive humor, which gives much savor to its descriptions of the balls of Tileries: “Gradually space is tightened in front of the sovereigns; the women of ministers and the princesses have their ruffled dresses… we see top of our bench the too many couples which turn in five square meters… a spur or a guard of sword hangs a dress and the victim turns while unrolling 8 to 10 meters of laces; one sees too long dresses, ladies which seem to wear dresses of lower part, others which seem to have put several dresses one on the other… All that turns, change and glapit…”

In its work on the Eugenie empress, Th Rene-Lafage regards the Marchioness as most brilliant and most spiritual of the ladies of the Court: “Eugenie liked to have it near it. It was, between them, of the attacks of jokes, travelling fires of left again comic. The Empress, who had a particular direction of the caricature found in Mrs. de Latour-Maubourg an echo full with spirit. That discrete mockeries, that mischievous portraits brushed with the devil, that biting words left their talks. ”

Concerned of her functions, the Marchioness fights against certain overflows, in particular the scandalmongering, which she appreciates little, as the tale Mrs. Carette: “(One) lady… with a ball of Tileries told the mysterious birth of a child by adding the most precise details and by naming the young girl. Madam de Maubourg pointed out to him that such remarks were serious and specific to lose the honor of an young girl. She asked to him whether she were well ensured of what she advanced. - All the more sure as very happened eight days ago in friends with me. - That astonishes me because here is precisely Miss X who dances, took again the Marchioness and, without disabling itself, it went to repeat with the empress what it had just heard. A few moments later, a Chamberlain prevented the scandalmonger, by order of the sovereign one, that its car was advanced”

The couple considers with serious its functions of representations, functions which seem to us quite obsolete today. Great receptions are organized in its various residences, in Paris, in Glareins in the Dombes, where the game abounds, in Cannes and Maubourg.

Napoleon III and the Empress seem to appreciate this discrete but effective presence. The Marchioness notes, not without pride, that the Empress has a photograph of her children in her apartments. Napoleon III, on his side, would have remained with the castle of Glareins (Ain).

A relationship moved away, the countess of Rochefort d' Ally, dies without descendant. By its will, it institutes the young person wire sole legatee. It is not twenty years old and here it is the already rich one! Mrs. Carette summarizes in a sentence the situation of this family under the Second Empire: “Independent, quite born, fortunate, their life was free from any concern for a long time”.

End of a World

Arrive “the terrible year”, 1870. In January, the marchioness loses his/her father and his mother of the small pox. Receiving in the staircase of Tileries the mail announcing the disease of her father to him, she entrusts to Mrs. Carette: “Until now was any sorrow saved to me but what holds the future for me? ”

The future, related to the Guerre free-Prussian will be tragic. Just of the Turn-Maubourg, twenty years old, engages in the French Army. He is second lieutenant in the Mobile Garde of the Haute-Loire. In one moving written letter at the time of its departure for the face, it expresses its pride to go to defend its country, before continuing “God and Notre Dame of Salette, in which I put all my confidence, will protect me… ”. Why this devotion with Notre Dame of Salette? The Count de Basterot reports that child, Juste had been cured of one peritonitis following a wish of his parents with Notre Dame of Salette…

(a) repetita not place… November 24th, 1870, the regiment receives the baptism of fire. Just out of the Turn-Maubourg is killed out of a ball above the heart.

His/her sister, Nancy, wife in Paris in 1873 a gentleman of Breton origin, Pierre de Kergorlay. In 1875, she dies with Cannes by giving rise to a first child still-born child.

Strongly affected and suffering of one reduced mobility following an attack, the Marquis, giant of almost two meters, will survive until 1886, under the care of his wife. He will die in Paris in 1886

Become widowed, the Marchioness will carry out a withdrawn life but however activates, marked by many voyages between various places, whose Paray-le-Monial which she attends assiduously (the worship of the Sacré Heart is then in full rise). She will remain very attached to the Eugenie empress whom she will accompany in several by her displacements and with which she will have an abundant correspondence.

Morals qualities of the marchioness appear in the adversity with same constancy as in the last records of the Second Empire. It is not locked up in the nostalgia of the past. Its readings of the press and its activities show that time present constitutes its principal center of interest. “Madam of the Turn-Maubourg was dumb on a past which it could certainly judge… I heard some anecdotes in a simple word, hardly expressing its judgment, the evening in family” will note the Baron de Framond, lord of the manor of Maubourg after his death.

She also undertakes ambitious projects, feature which seems to have characterized the family at all the times. Thus in Maubourg, it entirely makes refit the vault and the library. It also pours an important contribution to make rebuild the church of Saint-Maurice-of-Lignon.

The Marchioness does not hesitate to intervene over the subject then delicate of the relationship between the State and private education. Following the laws on the laicization of teaching, the maintenance of a town hall in the buildings of a denominational school, into force for several decades with Saint Maurice, has not been possible any more. The Marchioness organizes a series of transactions making it possible to maintain in the village a free private primary school education which it finances of its own sums of money while renting with the municipality, for a modest sum, another building with use of town hall. Everyone is satisfied; it is true that generosities of the Marchioness are likely to satisfy all the parties!

To its death in 1900, an important page is turned. The goods of Faÿ of the Turn-Maubourg, of which she had inherited her husband, will pass to the downward last of the family, of the branch of Faÿ-Solignac (filiation going back to the 15th century), married with the Baron de Framond.

The Marquis and the Marchioness, their children and various family members, of which more than ten knights of Malta, are buried in a small vault of the cemetery of Saint Maurice de Lignon, who would have been built in the fields of the Lyons architect Pierre Bossan.

First half of the 20th century is a sad period for Maubourg. The majority of the residences of the family will be dispersed. The private mansion of Paris, 12 rue de la Ville l'Evêque, and the residence of Cannes, the " Villa of Iles" will be destroyed (to Cannes, a street always bears the name of Latour-Maubourg). Maubourg will be sold at the Collieries of the Loire and will be transformed into summer camp during nearly fifty years. It was finally bought by the Community of the Communes of the Country of Juices in 2004.

In spite of these vicissitudes, the field of Maubourg remains an exceptional site. None the elements which composes it is remarkable independently of the remainder, neither the castle of which severe esthetics suffers from a roof too hastily restored, neither the old woman tower, neither the orangery, nor the refrigerator. However the unit has much charm. Nothing is more pleasant than a walk in the alleys of the field and the parts of the castle, although having lost much of their gloss, remain touching places to visit.

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