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Le château en bref
The Château de Borey, in Haute-Saône, illustrates the seigneurial residences that the Franche-Comté nobility had built before the Revolution, midway between the fortified manor house and the classical residence. An earlier structure, probably a fortified manor house, is attested at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and the château took its general form between the late sixteenth and the seventeenth century. The Tranchant de la Verne family remodelled it in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the pediment of the porte cochère bears the date 1684, accompanied by two coats of arms that were hammered out during the Revolution. The long two-storey corps de logis, oriented east-west, is flanked by two projecting pavilions; an eighteenth-century chapel is incorporated at the rear, and outbuildings as well as former moats, now filled in, complete the ensemble. During the Revolution, the château served as a common room and housed a battalion of volunteers before being sold as national property to citizen Goulut, a former farmer. Partly rebuilt in the nineteenth century after a fire, its east tower was restored in 2006.
