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Le château en bref
The Château de Monthoux, in Pringy (Annecy), is laid out around a square inner courtyard entirely enclosed by two residential wings and two service wings. The south façade, overlooking terraced gardens, is flanked by a large square tower to the west and a round tower to the east; a nineteenth-century restoration pierced it with large windows offering a view over the Annecy basin. The Monthouz family, documented from the end of the twelfth century, bought the château in 1398 from the Count of Geneva, Humbert de Thoire-Villars. Passed down by inheritance in the early twentieth century to Louis Machard de Chillaz, a former papal Zouave officer, it now belongs to his great-grandson, Baron Henri de Chillaz, who carried out a restoration that respects the original fabric.