Domaine de Beauvois - History of the Domaine

The Domaine de Beauvois down the centuries

Of the initial château, built in the 15th century, there still exists a tower and two gables surrounding the main building parallel with the road. This aristocratic house must have been very imposing since an old municipal register states that "On 20 prairial year II, the town council of Saint-Etienne-de-Chigny received the order to demolish the towers of the château de Beauvais".
Beauvais, a contraction of "beautiful valley" was a fief subordinate to the commune of Maillé, but when the Duke Charles Albert de Luynes, a great falconer and a favourite of King Louis XIII acquired it in 1619, it was made a part of the Duchy of Luynes.

There was a succession of owners with the passage of time. The most important of these were Joseph-Emmanuel Roujou, councillor and secretary to King Louis XIV in 1696, the La Béraudiere family from 1789 to 1888 and the Blanchard family from 1888 to 1924.

On the top floor of the tower, preserved in a room that also has an old fireplace, is a chestnut roof structure that has been perfectly displayed. On the first floor, a panelled 17 th century room with red and gold visible beams has a fireplace surmounted with the coat of arms of the comtes de La Béraudiere: "Quartered in one and four azur with a silver forked cross and in two and three gold an eagle with spread wings, beaked gules and crowned with sinople."