Champlitte Castle

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Le château en bref

In the centre of Champlitte, on the border between Haute-Saône and Haute-Marne, the castle combines building campaigns from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries on a medieval core. Around 1565, François de Vergy, lord and later count of Champlitte, commissioned the architect Nicolas Moris to build a Renaissance wing with Flemish influence. The castle burned in 1638, during the Ten Years' War that devastated Franche-Comté, and then again accidentally in 1751, while it belonged to the Toulongeon family. Jean-François de Toulongeon had the south wing rebuilt in the classical style between 1765 and 1768, and his son Hyppolite completed the work in 1781–1782. In 1804, the oval salon received a panoramic wallpaper, “Les Sauvages de la mer Pacifique”. In 1825, the heirs sold the castle to the commune, which installed the town hall and a school there. Listed as a monument historique on 14 June 1909, it has housed the départemental museum of Arts et Traditions populaires since 1957, devoted to rural life in the 19th century. It should not be confused with the château Grillot, another monument in Champlitte.