Château des Réaux

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Le château en bref

Le château des Réaux, at Soisy-sur-École (Essonne), is a former seigneurial castle whose origins are said to date from the late 11th or early 12th century, after the Gâtinais was attached to the Crown around 1064; the royal household is said to have given it its name. In the 18th century, the seigneurie of the Réaux, reduced to the old castle and the farm, belonged to the Averton family, who ceded it to the Comte de Cély. A 13th-century stone bridge of two arches linked the Réaux mill with the lands on the other bank of the École.