Château du Breuil

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Le château en bref

The Château du Breuil, in Gennetines (Allier), was originally a motte-and-bailey castle surrounded by ditches, dismantled around 1830; its materials were used to build the present residence, low and long, on a single storey, whose high attic roofs with two dormer windows are said to be remnants of the 15th century. In 1599, Jean Berthomier, advocate at the sénéchaussée of the Bourbonnais, styled himself lord of Breuil there; in the 17th century, this family of wealthy bourgeois from Moulins turned a fortified house into a pleasure house. Private property.