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Le château en bref
The Château de Marigny-en-Orxois is a former fortified house whose oldest parts – the Pavillon des Tourelles – date back to the 11th–12th centuries. Mentioned in a 13th-century deed as the property of Mahaut, wife of Guillaume d'Acy, the estate passed to Gaucher de Châtillon by the will of Philip the Fair, before being confiscated from Charles d'Orléans by Charles VI and given to Jean de Croÿ in 1412. In 1526, Francis I granted it to Madeleine de Savoie on the occasion of her marriage to Anne de Montmorency. In the 17th century, the estate belonged to the Scarron family, including Élisabeth des Ursins, who died in 1644. François de La Peyronie, First Surgeon to the King, became its lord after being ennobled by Louis XV in 1721; in 1747 he bequeathed the estate to the Confraternity of Surgeons, together with an annual pension of ten thousand livres intended for charitable works. Louis XV bought the château back in 1749 for 200,000 livres before reselling it in March 1750 to François Poisson, father of the Marquise de Pompadour, who was lord of the estate until 1754. His son, Abel-François Poisson, Marquis de Marigny and Superintendent of the King's Buildings, then inherited the estate, which had been raised to a marquisate, and embellished it until 1781. Sold off in lots after the Revolution, it was reassembled in 1822 through successive acquisitions by Nicolas Henrion, a notary, and has remained in his family ever since. The towers date from the 12th century, the wings from the 15th and 18th centuries. The façades, roofs, park towers (dovecote and small tower) and the former garden enclosure were listed as historic monuments by order of 17 March 2003; 17th-century wooden market halls have also been classified since 1921. The château remains private property and is not open to visitors.
