Château de Grusse (Demeure Secrétan)

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Demeure Secrétan, at Val-Sonnette (former commune of Grusse) in the Jura, is an Empire-style residence built from 1821 for Antoine Joseph Secrétan, a former miller who became colonel of the Imperial Guard and was made a baron by Napoleon I in 1813. A first medieval château, which belonged to the lords of Grusse, then to the de Laubespin family, and finally to the Abriot family until their emigration in 1791, has now disappeared. The present residence, on the bank of the Sonnette, has been listed as a monument historique since 2008, together with the Secrétan tomb, as Secrétan had himself buried on the property in 1837. It remains a private property, closed to visitors.