Château de Domblans

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Le château en bref

The Château de Domblans, in the Jura, belonged to the seigneurie of Charrin. Simon de Charrin held it in the 13th century; it then passed to the Dieulefit and then the Montrichard families, before falling to Claude de Vautravers from 1444. Charles the Bold is said to have stayed there in 1476, as did Henry IV in 1595 according to local tradition. The building comprises two wings of residential quarters set at right angles, flanked by three cylindrical towers about 7 metres in diameter; the cross-mullioned windows, surmounted by arches in accolade, are typical of the 16th century. A round tower, formerly known as "la prison", overlooks the terrace above the Seille. Restored in the 19th and 20th centuries, the château was transformed by the decorator Jean-Marie Adam, who acquired it around thirty years before 2013, into a nightclub under the name "Le Babylone"; the property is said to have changed hands in 2017.