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Le château en bref
The Château de la Cheyrelle, located in the commune of Dienne (Cantal) at an altitude of 1,100 m, is a manor house built in the 19th century (the foundation stone was laid in 1858) on the base of a former medieval barn, where farming continued until the 1990s.
But it was at the beginning of the 20th century, between 1903 and 1905, that the château acquired its definitive form and its distinctive character, through the transformation works undertaken by its owner Pierre Felgères, then mayor of Dienne and a stockbroker on the Paris coulisse. He entrusted the extension and complete refurbishment of the property to his brother-in-law, the Parisian architect René Dulong, as well as to his associate Gustave Serrurier-Bovy, the famous architect and decorator from Liège and one of the masters of Art Nouveau.
At the Château de la Cheyrelle, René Dulong and Gustave Serrurier-Bovy thus applied, with great freedom, the avant-garde and visionary principles they championed at the time (cf. the Arts & Crafts movement, born in England around 1860), some of which still underpin contemporary architecture.
This exceptional ensemble, which has remained virtually intact to this day, is currently being restored.