History of Château de Corcelle
The land of Corcelle has been inhabited since at least Roman times. Roman remains have been found in the park and its surroundings. A Roman milestone was unearthed at the bottom of the park at the place where the Roman road Chalon - Autun passed. The mileage is on display at the Denon museum in Châlon sur Saône. The inscription specifies:
IMPERATORI CAESARI CAIO JULIO VERO MAXIMINO PIO FELICI AUGUSTO GERMANICO MAXIMODACICO MAXIMO SARMATICO MAXIMO PONTIFICI MAXIMOIMPERATORI V CONSULI PROCONSULI PATRI PATRIAEET CAIO JULIO VERO MAXIMO
GERMANICO MAXIMO DACICO MAXIMO SARMATICO MAXIMONOBILISSIMO CAESARI AB AUGUSTODUNOMILLIA PASSUUM XXXII
To the emperor Caesar Caius Julius Verus Maximin, pious, happy, Augustus, great conqueror of the Germans,
great winner of the Dacians and Sarmatians, great pontiff
Emperor for the 5th time, consul, proconsul, father of the country,
and to Caius Julius Verus Maxime,
great winner of the Germans,
great winner of the Dacians and the Sarmatians,
very noble Caesar, from Autun
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The castle of Corcelle or Courcelle is mentioned on the Cassini map established in 1757
The Viard de la Verchère family has owned many lands in Corcelle since at least the 15th century. It is a family originally from Brionnais (southern Burgundy) which had a great influence in Burgundy from the 15th to the 18th century. She was particularly involved in the conquest of New France (now Canada) where Madeleine de la Verchère, aged 14, fought with heroism against the Iroquois to save Fort de Verchère and the colony. Their exploits went back to the court of Louis XIV. She obtained a pension of 400 pounds from the king.
Françoise Viard de la Verchère married Charles Gauthier (1704-1774), squire and lord of La Tournelle. The de la Tournelle family is one of the oldest families in Burgundy, originally from the Morvan. In 1742, the family made people talk about it through the Marquise de la Tournelle, who was very beautiful. She was the mistress of the nephew of Richelieu then of King Louis XV.
Françoise and Charles Gauthier will have a son in 1736, Gabriel.
They buy three houses on rue des Poulets in Chalon-sur-Saône and replace them with a private mansion. It was at this time that she undertook the construction of the Château de Corcelle.
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Coat of arms of the Verchère family
Gabriel married Marie-Françoise de Charrin in 1768. He enlarged the Corcelle estate and had a chapel built which was inaugurated in 1788. The revolutionary period gave cold sweats to the de la Tournelle family as well as to their parish priest, Jean Pierre Besançenot.
Rheumatism noted by a medical certificate had determined him to go in the last days of August 1793 to Luxeuil les Bains, it was enough to make him reputed suspect. Arrested as selfish and very indifferent to the affairs and success of the Republic, he was imprisoned in Chalon in December 1793 and released on October 13 of the following year.
In the meantime, the district of Louhans had placed him on the list of suspects for not having sent a certificate of residence to the Château de Corcelle.
More than two hundred Chalonnais signed his request for delisting. But it was not until February 1799 to win the case.
Gabriel died in Châlon on February 10, 1813.
The Lord of La Tournelle and the banner of Saint Denis before leaving for the Crusades
In 1823, Charles-Marie de Charrin, Gabriel's grandson inherited the estate. He married Marie-Louise Anaïs Fleur de Lys and for twenty years Charles enlarged him and was named Count of Charrin.
He will even be elected mayor of the commune of Châtenoy le royal.
In May 1843, their son, Mathieu Jean Marie, married Anne Charlotte Hélène d'Andlau, daughter of the famous Armand Gaston Délix d'Andlau (deputy and count of Andlau).
Armand Gaston Félix d'Andlau
Hélène Anne Charlotte d'Andlau
The property passed in 1869 in the name of Mr. Adolphe Lemoine dit Montigny residing in Paris.
Born in Belgium in 1812, Adolphe Lemoine moved to the capital early on as an actor playing on the stages of the “French Theater” or at the “Gaîté”. From 1844, with the help of his brother Edouard, until his death, he directed the very famous “Gymnase”, where the works of Balzac, Georges Sand and Alexandre Dumas fils were presented. Adolphe Lemoine also signs many vaudevilles and dramas such as Amazampo or the Dulaure family.
In May 1847 he married Rose Chéri. His real name Cizos, Jean Baptiste dit Chéri the father and Sophie Juliette Garcin the mother come from a long line of actors specializing in provincial shows.
Rose Chéri (born October 2, 1824) and her sister Anna (1826), both born in Etampes, are actresses known under the pseudonyms Rose Chéri then Chéri Montigny for the first and Chéri Lesueur for the second. Their brother Victor, violinist is a renowned conductor.
Rising on the stage from her earliest childhood, Rose Marie (according to civil status) was noticed by Loïsa Puget thus allowing her to be engaged in the troupe of the Théâtre du Gymnase Dramatique on Boulevard de Bonne Nouvelle in Paris. Blonde with big blue eyes, she sings and plays the piano wonderfully.
Rose gave three children to Montigny and devoted herself energetically to the cause of the most unfortunate. During the events of 1848 which plunged the Gymnasium into financial embarrassment, she gave up her salaries and gave performances in the provinces and in particular at the Château de Corcelle. She died in September 1861 at the age of 35 from a serious contagious illness from which she managed to save her son Joseph.
From 1881 the property of Corcelle was purchased by a wealthy industrialist from Lille, Charles Henri Auguste Van der Straeten, for his daughter Marie. She married Albert Chevrier who was then a great merchant in Châlon sur Saône.
From this union will be born a son, Charles Albert Jules Floris, in August 1883. They are respectively thirty-one and twenty-four years old and they live in Corcelle.
It was Albert who profoundly transformed the castle and the estate in the 1880s: construction of two towers, expansion of the pavilion, construction of a stud farm, stained glass production by his best friend and master glassmaker Félix Gaudin.
It is the golden age of the Château de Corcelle.
Albert and Félix met at the college in Châlon sur Saône. Félix gets into the habit of going regularly to Corcelle where he regularly rides in Albert Chevrier's stud farm. He made many stained-glass windows for Albert Castle. Albert also ordered the stained glass window "Symphonie", "harmony", "spring morning" and "autumn afternoon" for his private mansion in Chalon sur Saône. The Harmonie stained glass window won a gold medal at the 1900 Universal Exhibition. The autumn afternoon stained glass window is now on display at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.
Considered the master glassmaker of Art Nouveau, Félix Gaudin was Eugène Grasset's favorite stained glass artist.
The Château de Corcelle is also the subject of numerous theatrical performances.
Charles Albert Jules married in 1901 to Marie Antoinette, Renée de Bonniol de Trémont. He died in Nice in September 1965. They are both buried in the cemetery of Châtenoy.
In 1962, the estate was split up: Charles Albert kept the pavilion, the stud farm became a canine center, the farm and the chapel became housing and the château was sold to the Balland family.
In very poor condition, the château was then sold to the Dupuy Trecul family in 1990 and then to the Boulanger family in 1993.
Finally, the Dechanet family bought the castle in 2011 and gave all their energy to restore it and restore it to its former glory.