Château de Pieuillet

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Le château en bref

The Château de Pieuillet, in Marcellaz-Albanais, overlooks the Rumilly plain from a west-facing slope, surrounded by farmland and wetlands. A rectangular three-storey stone building flanked by two square towers, it has a chapel on the upper floor of the north tower and a steeply pitched roof. At the end of the sixteenth century it belonged to Philippe Critain, lord of Montregard, before being sold in 1617 to François le Juge, advocate at the Senate of Savoy. The le Juge family, ennobled in 1498, kept it until the eighteenth century. Auguste de Juge (1797-1863), born at the château, became a magistrate and a poet praised by Lamartine and Théophile Gautier, notably for his poem ‘Le lac de Genève’. Owned by Félix Sage at the beginning of the twentieth century, then by the Curt family (1927-1979) and the Behaghel family (1979-1993), it has belonged since 1993 to Mr and Mrs Durand.