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Le château en bref
The Château de Bonnay, on the outskirts of the village of Bonnay in the Doubs department, was rebuilt in 1712 on the ruins of an earlier fortified house (maison forte). Its French formal garden was transformed into an English landscape park in 1827. The de Buyer family owned it from the 18th century until 1970, when Dominique de Buyer, the last noble owner, began handing over the estate. The residential part was sold in the early 2000s to the Jacquet family, then, after Mr Jacquet's death in 1983, bought from his widow in 1988 by Mrs Pollock. The rectangular three-storey main building (corps de logis) has fifteen rooms and two return wings, and is enclosed by a curtain wall flanked by four round towers with conical roofs.