Bussy-Rabutin Castle

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Le château en bref

Originally a fortified manor house of the fourteenth century, with towers and a moat, Bussy-Rabutin Castle was given Renaissance alterations in the sixteenth century (galleries, friezes) before François de Rabutin, grandfather of Roger, bought the estate in 1602 and built the symmetrical classical façade that stands today. Roger de Rabutin, Count of Bussy, soldier, writer and member of the Académie, was exiled to Burgundy for seventeen years by Louis XIV after the publication of his "Histoire amoureuse des Gaules". There he created a unique interior decoration of more than three hundred paintings evoking court life and his exile. Labelled as a Maison des Illustres and owned by the State since 1929, the château is managed by the Centre des monuments nationaux and open to visitors as a museum, including the nineteenth-century Sarcus wing, which has recently been restored.