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In Montbouy, in the Loing valley, the Château des Giraults is less a château in the strict sense than a large villa from the early twentieth century, built on a site with a distinctive history. Before 1831, the site was occupied by a large farm, whose farmhouse was converted into an orphanage by a certain M. Dupuy, around 1820–1830. A chapel in the neo-Gothic style was added there around 1870. Around 1900, M. Milon acquired the property and had a villa in the neo-Norman style built between 1905 and 1908, a style then much in vogue in holiday residences. It comprises a basement, a ground floor and an attic storey; its walls combine limestone and rubblestone rendered over, beneath a slate roof with long slopes and hips, and a staircase serves the interior. Local oral tradition speaks of an older château on the site, though no trace of it has been established. Listed in the Inventaire général, the building is privately owned.