Château de La Touchette

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The Château de la Touchette, near Neung-sur-Beuvron (Loir-et-Cher), was first a farm in the 16th century, dependent on the Château du Gué-Mulon. In 1710, the squire Claude Cahouët de Senneville passed it on to his steward, Jacques Jumeau; it then became a presbytery before being transferred in 1810 to a servant, Julie Françoise Pichet. Having become a prestigious hunting estate in the 19th century, it was acquired before the First World War by the lawyer Lucien Jullemier, who received President Raymond Poincaré there in the spring of 1919. In 1920, Jullemier had the brick manor house remodelled by the architect Pierre Chauvallon, with the addition of two towers with dormer windows and an Anglo-Norman service wing. Jullemier, known for having helped reveal the innocence of Captain Dreyfus, is also the author of the Contes de Sologne (1915). After his death in 1928, the property changed hands several times; it remains private and is not open to visitors.