Domaine de Beauvois - History of the Domaine

A third establishment in the Val de Loire

Let us go back to 1966 when René Traversac, the founder of the Grandes Etapes Françaises, had just taken the plunge into a career in the hotel industry following the acquisition of Le Prieuré near Saumur and the transformation of the Château d'Artigny into a luxury hotel.

He was attracted by a proposal from Jean-Marie Martin, who was ready to sell his property at St Etienne de Chigny to the west of Tours, comprising a main house with outbuildings, an industrial building and three farms spread over 140 hectares of fields and woodland.

		Was this the old unrequited dream of a gentleman farmer? René Traversac was won over. The deal was rapidly concluded and the sale took place in Tours on 3 June 1966 (before Maître Mothes). This is how the Domaine de Beauvois, then called the Domaine de Beauvais, but rechristened Beauvois to avoid confusion with the town of Beauvais, came to form the third link of the chain of the Grandes Etapes Françaises. .
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