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Le château en bref
At the locality of Les Bordes, in Lailly-en-Val in the Sologne, once stood a château that has since disappeared, linked to two major names of nineteenth-century literature. Its construction began at the start of the century for Vincent Caillard, a transport contractor, and his son Marc inherited it in 1843. The novelist Eugène Sue, Marc's brother-in-law, had a gallery and a conservatory added around 1844–1845, and Alexandre Dumas stayed there in 1846–1847. Work was completed around 1880. The building combined limestone, brick and rendered rubblestone: a main body of two storeys, a gatehouse tower of three levels, turrets with conical roofs and a round tower, with the gallery and the conservatory extending at the rear. In 1977, Baron Bich, founder of the Bic company, bought the estate and had the château demolished in 1979. A golf course opened on the site in 1987. The château is therefore known today only from the surveys of the General Inventory of Cultural Heritage.