Château de Toisy

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Le château en bref

The Château de Toisy, in La Chapelle-Vendômoise (Loir-et-Cher), retains a cylindrical tower from the late 15th century with a pepper-pot roof and decorated machicolations, as well as a dovecote with 1254 brick nesting holes. The main building, structured like a small manor house of the 15th and 16th centuries, was remodelled in the 18th and 19th centuries. In the 15th century the fief belonged to Guillaume Gaillard, a merchant from Blois, then to the Boudet, Filleul and Basmaison families. The chemist Antoine Lavoisier bought the castellany (355 hectares) on 9 June 1784 and sold it in 1793 to Coulomb, of the Académie des sciences. The writer Georges Bernanos stayed there from September to December 1946. Listed as a monument historique since 4 October 1982 (the ground-floor fireplace, the façades and roofs of the tower, and the dovecote), the château is a privately owned property that is not open to visitors and can be seen from the street.