Château de Cerf-Bois

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Le château en bref

The Château de Cerf-Bois stands in Marcilly-en-Villette, in the Sologne (Loiret). At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the estate comprised only a Sologne manor house; Étienne de Mainville acquired the land in 1826 and began building the present château in 1848. Halted several times for financial reasons, the works were resumed after his death in 1853 by his son, with the Orléans architect A. Jutteau, who completed the façade in 1858. In eclectic neoclassical style, the château was built of bricks made on site; the stables date from 1853. Albert Pinçon, owner from 1878, laid out the park and had a pond dug in 1891. On 10 June 1944, twelve young Parisian resistance students were executed in a clearing in the Cerf-Bois; two memorials, one facing the château's entrance, commemorate this tragedy. The estate remains a privately owned family property.