En un regard
Le château en bref
Given in 1199 by the abbey of Saint-Seine to the Order of the Temple, the site of Avosnes passed in the 14th century to the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, which leased it in 1520 to Simon and Denis Potot; they built the present fortress without authorisation, giving rise to legal disputes in 1579. In 1594, nobles of the region besieged Avosnes, demolished a tower and captured its occupants, who were accused of having set fire to neighbouring châteaux. Passing to the Boillot and then the Guillaume families, the château was acquired by the Driot family in 1725, who kept it until 1932; it now belongs to the de Girval family. The complex comprises, to the south, a rectangular building with a square upper floor and decorated openings and a square tower on the west façade - the only vestige of the 16th century - and a square dovecote, and, to the north, a seigneurial residence made up of two L-shaped wings joined by a round tower with a spiral staircase, fitted with a three-gunport echauguette (corner turret) on the west side. The façades, roofs and the interior tower staircase have been listed as historic monuments since 20 October 1971.