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Le château en bref
The Château de Saulon, set in a 27-hectare park at Saulon-la-Rue (Côte-d'Or), was built around 1460 by the lord of Saulon-la-Rue, a king's advocate, to administer his estate. By 1643, the whole already included two stables, a chapel, a bakehouse and a dovecote. Around 1750, the prestigious Clermont family acquired the property and became the Clermont-Perrigny branch after inheriting the county of Perrigny. Sold as national property (bien national) to local bourgeois in 1789, the estate returned under the Restoration to the Clermont-Montoison branch, which renovated it without altering its character, filled in the medieval moats and redesigned the gardens. In 2018, Thierry Goux bought the château and undertook a complete restoration in partnership with the design agency Rinck, transforming it into an elegant hotel showcasing Burgundian heritage. The estate today has 42 rooms spread between the château and its outbuildings, surviving moats, two rivers, a pond, a swimming pool and French formal gardens. Operated as a hotel-restaurant ('Deux Rivières'), it hosts family events, weddings and business seminars, with meeting rooms, bicycle hire and secure parking.