Château de Mémillon

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Mémillon estate, in Saint-Maur-sur-le-Loir, saw five successive châteaux rise and fall over a thousand years within a bend of the Loir. Of the feudal château, whose main building disappeared after it was sold as national property during the Revolution, there survive fortified remains dating from the 15th to 17th centuries: a moat bridge, a monumental round-arched gateway flanked by two square pavilions, and a farm complex. These were protected as historic monuments in 1976. On a neighbouring site, a new château in the Napoleon III style replaced the Saveuse manor, the work of Louis-Gustave Rougemont, in 1815. A winter garden and a nine-hole golf course laid out by Tom Simpson were added around 1900. The Besançon de Wagner family (Maggy Rouff) acquired the estate in 1924 and had it redecorated by the Jansen firm, resulting in a 1930s interior with a marble entrance hall and statues. The property is today run by private owners under the name Les Manoirs de Mémillon.