Château de Dampierre

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Château de Dampierre in the Aube (not to be confused with the famous Château de Dampierre-en-Yvelines) combines a fortified 15th-century gatehouse tower, flanked by four turrets with pepper-pot or domed roofs protecting the former drawbridge, with a stone residence built in the third quarter of the 17th century to plans attributed to the architect François Mansart. The estate belonged successively to the houses of Dampierre-Bourbon, Dampierre-Flandre and then Dampierre-Châtillon, before passing in 1526 to the Picot family and then to the La Rochefoucauld family; the Aligny branch owned it from the 1930s until 2021. Listed as a historic monument (classé) in 1929, it changed hands again in 2022 and remains open to visitors on a seasonal basis.