Château de Conzié

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Le château en bref

North-east of the village of Bloye, near Rumilly, the Château de Conzié stands on the edge of a plain that was once marshland. A former fortified manor house attested before 1370, it is the seat of the lordship of Conzié, whose family of the same name is mentioned as early as 1103 with Galéas de Conzié, the first known lord. The Conzié family kept the fief until 1546, when Claude de Conzié sold it to André and Georges de Montfort, whose family held it for roughly two centuries. In 1748 it passed to Jean-Guillaume Gromet, a Piedmontese landowner, before being bought back in 1783 by Joseph-François de Conzié, then aged 76, who thus returned to the family's cradle; on his death in 1789, it was inherited by the Gerbaix de Sonnaz d'Habère family. The building has an imposing L-shaped main range, with a small square tower projecting from the north façade. Some rooms retain French-style ceilings (plafonds à la française), and most of the windows date from the eighteenth century. It is today a private property.