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Le château en bref
At Choye, in Haute-Saône, several fortified castles succeeded one another on the same site during the Middle Ages, the last one being demolished in the early 17th century. The present residence was built between 1769 and 1772 for the président d'Olivet, who had just acquired the seigneury, to plans by the Besançon architect Nicolas Nicole; the contractors Frin, Bournel and Jeannier carried out the works, and the outbuildings were completed in 1784. The rectangular main block, measuring roughly thirty metres by twenty, rises over two storeys and an attic floor; its south-west façade is flanked by square towers. The Colombine stream runs through the park to the west. Raoul de Pillot de Coligny was born here in 1846. Listed in the Inventaire général without being protected as a monument historique, the estate now houses an institut médico-pédagogique.