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In 1543, in the hollow of the
valley of the Domaine d'Esclimont, Etienne de Poncher, archbishop of
Tours, had a chateau built. Philippe Hurault, Comte de Cheverny, became
its owner in 1580.
The death of the last descendant of the Counts of Cheverny generated the
sale of the chateau to Claude de Bullion, Counsellor to Parliament under
Henry IV, in 1639. The Chateau d'Esclimont ceased belonging to the
Bullion family in 1746, through the marriage of Josephine Hortense with
Guy-André de Montmorency, Duke of Laval, who was to become a Marshal of
France.
The Chateau was handed down in the Montmorency-Laval family until 1807
when its owner married Louis François Sosthène de la Rochefoucauld-Doudeauville.
Laure de Mailly-Nesle was to be the final owner up to its sale in 1981
to Les Grandes Etapes Françaises. |
