Château de Jouaignes

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Le château en bref

The Château de Jouaignes is a manor house built in the commune of Jouaignes, in the Aisne. The lordship was acquired in 1580 by the des Fossés d'Arcry family, who probably rebuilt the château in the early decades of the 17th century. Eustache III des Fossés d'Arcry had the building remodelled around 1720, then his son Eustache IV extended it with a north wing around 1750. The de Laurès family, who then inherited the estate, added in the mid-19th century a low brick pavilion housing a salon, against the south gable. The present house thus consists of three parts corresponding to these successive building campaigns: a main body of one storey on a basement, topped by a broken roof and flanked by two corner pavilions, a lower north wing, and a brick south pavilion with a terrace roof. Two Latin inscriptions adorn the doors of the château, including a quotation from Virgil's Eclogues on the rear façade; a small dovecote serves as a garden folly. The Château de Jouaignes has been listed as a historic monument since 1982. Privately owned, it cannot be visited.