Château de Vascœuil

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Château de Vascœuil, whose main building is dated to the seventeenth century by the Mérimée database entry (domaine de la Forestière), is inseparable from the historian Jules Michelet, who lived there from 1841 to 1861 and wrote part of his Histoire de France and his Histoire de la Révolution française there. The estate now houses a Michelet museum, labelled Maison des Illustres, which recreates his study at the top of the octagonal tower. The main building (façades and roofs) and the dovecote are listed as historic monuments in 1991 and 1985 respectively, and the site was registered in 1942 and then classified in 1944.