Château de Herces

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Le château en bref

The Château de Herces, in Berchères-sur-Vesgre in Eure-et-Loir, is a rare example of a neoclassical residence whose four façades are all different, unified beneath a continuous entablature. The estate is mentioned as early as 1137, under Amaury III de Montfort, Count of Évreux. A first château was built on the site in the 14th and 15th centuries by the family of Simon de Richebourg. It passed to the du Buc family in the 17th century, then in 1710 to Louis Colbert, son of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, and was sold in 1760. Charles-Robert Boutin, who acquired it in 1773, had the present château built to designs by Jacques-Denis Antoine, architect of the Hôtel des Monnaies in Paris. Its compact plan spans three storeys, and it is often compared with the Petit Trianon. It now belongs to the Châteauform' network.