En un regard
Le château en bref
Château-Perret straddles the communes of Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or and Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d'Or, in the Rhône department, on the hillside above the Saône valley. The estate corresponds to the former fief of La Chaux, held in the seventeenth century by Jean de Raverie, then by the families Guillet de Moidière, Maupeou and Chambray. In 1870, the Lyon industrialist Jean-Baptiste Perret (1815-1887), head of a major chemical products factory and later representative and senator for the Rhône under the Third Republic, bought the property, had the former residence demolished and built the present house, which kept his name. It is a nineteenth-century folly topped with three towers crowned by spire roofs: a square tower at the centre, another to the south and a round tower to the north. The façade is preceded by a terrace and a semicircular staircase. In 1902, Perret's widow bequeathed the estate to Émile Loubet, Hermann Sabran and Félix Mangini. Since 1972, the site has housed a hospital centre.