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Le château en bref
The Château de Rives, sometimes called (wrongly, according to recent research) the "Château de Montjoux", in Thonon-les-Bains, is in fact a former 14th-century priory, formed from 1321 through the purchase of several houses, notably from the Lombard Rolando Guerreti, and first mentioned in 1386. A neighbouring fortified house, built at the same period by the Greysier family, was confused with the priory by Abbé Louis-Étienne Piccard in the 1880s; modern research establishes that these were two contiguous but distinct buildings. Transferred in 1752 to the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, then sold in 1791 to the Count of Sonnaz, the site was nationalised and converted into a tannery, then a pottery, before being restored as a private residence in 1920, requisitioned during the Second World War, and finally transferred in 1999 to the town of Thonon-les-Bains, which made it the municipal museum. The façades, roofs, enclosed courtyard and gateway are protected as historic monuments.