Château de Tilly

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Le château en bref

At Boissey-le-Châtel, near Bourgtheroulde, the Château de Tilly is a Norman Renaissance residence built between 1530 and 1535 for Claude I Le Roux, Viscount of Elbeuf, on the site of an 11th-century castle of which only the curtain wall survives. Francis I is said to have visited it in 1535. Built of brick and stone, it combines a rectangular main block flanked by two round towers on the front and, at the rear, a tall stair turret crowned with a belvedere and a lantern; sculpted game animals adorn the windows, a nod to its role as a hunting lodge. An oval crenellated enclosure with small towers, purely ornamental, surrounds it. The estate passed to the Anzeray de Courvaudon family in 1698, then to Bon Henri Pierre Levicomte de Blangy after the Revolution. Restored from 1897 to 1905 by the architect Émile Janet, occupied from 1940 to 1944, it then served as a communal school before being restored in 1990 and again in 2012. Listed as a monument historique, it now houses a hotel with a gastronomic restaurant.