Château de Chuet

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Le château en bref

Château de Chuet, in Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny in the Arve valley, is a fortified house founded in the 13th century by Rodolphe de Faucigny, known as "de Chuyt". From the 13th to the 15th century, the de Chuet family, vassals of the lords of Faucigny, held it; in 1402 it passed by marriage to the du Fresnoy family, then in 1545 to Jean Martin, who took the name du Fresnoy. Joseph Martin du Fresnoy became Marquis de Cluses in 1700. The estate passed in 1764 to Pierre-Joseph de Planchamp, then in 1830 to the Rivérieulx de Chambost family, before being bought in 1937 by Ajax Lalliard and his sons, whose family still maintains it. The complex combines, to the south, a 13th-century square residential block with 1.60-metre-thick walls, at the centre a four-storey keep crowned by a corbelled turret with machicolations, and to the north a 19th-century residential wing. The interior retains a 17th-century Delft tin-glazed earthenware stove. A 3.5-hectare park, with a French formal garden and a former fish pond, surrounds it. The château is protected under the local urban planning plan (plan local d'urbanisme).