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Le château en bref
The Château de Sainte-Colombe-en-Auxois was built around 1640 by Jacques Filsjean, who had become lord of part of Sainte-Colombe after a division of property in 1629; by 1643 he already owned 'the seigneurial house consisting of a main building and a lodging, barn, stable, wine press, vines, courtyards, garden, dovecote'. The Filsjean family kept the estate until 1775; Jean-Charles Filsjean died in 1790, followed by his son Henri Louis Jean Filsjean in 1811. An antique dealer bought the château in 1906, stripped it of its interior decoration, then sold it in 1911 to the parents of the last private owners, who used the buildings for agricultural purposes until 1986. The classical building combines a central main block flanked by two pavilions and several outbuildings; an 18th-century western addition is covered by a mansard roof, and original yellow and red ochre polychromy emphasised the symmetry and lines of the façade. The association ARCADE (Association pour la Restauration du Château, l'Animation et le Développement de Sainte-Colombe-en-Auxois), founded in 1986, undertook its restoration; the château is listed on the supplementary inventory of Monuments historiques. Since 2007, ARCADE has operated as an Atelier de Recherche en Création Artistique et Design (workshop for research in artistic creation and design), hosting cultural events, exhibitions, workshops and design programmes.