Château de Chadebec

English translation

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History

The land of Chadebec, like a good part of the parish of Saint-Germain-les-Vergnes, belonged in the Middle Ages to the seigneury of Favars. The domain passed into the family of Miremont in 1483 and, at the beginning of the 17th century, into that of the Miramon who kept it beyond the Revolution. The castle and park were rebuilt in the 19th century by Marsillon, engineer in Paris, who brought his property up to date. He called upon several architects and landscape gardeners who submitted to him plans in watercolour preserved in the castle. The park was restored in 1877-1878. In the vicinity of the castle, all the paths with gentle curves have their starting point in this building; they delimit large expanses of lawns, judiciously planted with isolated trees or small woods of rare species. The kitchen garden forms a quadrilateral which appeared to be divided into four compartments. The English river with winding course encircles the whole of the park from south-east to north-west. To the north, the high forest, constituted of a cover of oaks and beeches, evokes wild nature. Two garden buildings, the henhouse and the ice-house, complete the whole.