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The Château de Solaire is located in Bonnée, in the Loiret department. It is a nineteenth-century country house, built in 1867–1870 on the site of an older residence, much of whose elements it reuses. It consists of a central body of one storey flanked by two square pavilions of the same height, one of which houses a chapel; a semi-octagonal turret in the middle of the south façade serves as the entrance. A gatehouse, mentioned in 1854, precedes the ensemble. The estate extends into a large landscape park with a pond and remarkable trees, laid out by the landscape designer Eugène Bühler. The former house was sold in 1772 by the Duke of Sully to Pierre-François Villoing, then passed around 1792 to his nephew, a notary in Sully; it was Mrs Blanchet, née Flavie Jahan, widow of M. Blanchet, who had the present château built after her husband's death in 1857. The estate is private; its owners opened it, exterior and chapel included, during the Journées du patrimoine 2024.