Château de Boucard

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Le château en bref

The Château de Boucard, in Le Noyer (Cher), was built on a former feudal motte by Lancelot de Boucart at the end of the 14th century; the entrance gatehouse (châtelet), the outer walls and the corner towers survive from that period. Around 1520, Antoine de Boucard, a gentleman in the service of Francis I, built a Renaissance residence (logis) there; his son François raised the north wing in 1560. Between 1664 and 1674, Marshal Philippe de Montaut-Bénac de Navailles, placed under house arrest by Louis XIV, opened the courtyard onto the Sauldre. Passing by marriage to the Cugnac family and then to the La Châtre family, and acquired in 1720 by the farmer-general Étienne Perrinet de Jars, the estate passed to the Bryas family and then to Marie-Henriette de Montabert, who opened it to the public in 1965 and added it to the Route Jacques-Cœur; since 2018 it has belonged to Thibault de Montabert. Classified as a Monument Historique, it hosts the Estivales de Boucard festival every year.