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Château de Buzay

Name: Château de Buzay
Rating: 1.8

Recommended by 12 cyclists out of 15

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Location: La Jarne, La Rochelle, New Aquitaine, France

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1. Plage de Châtelaillon – Port du Loiron Fishing Huts loop from Châtelaillon-Plage

44.0km

02:32

140m

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2. Plage de Châtelaillon – Carrelets du marais d'Yves loop from La Jarrie

135km

07:51

360m

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3. La Rochelle – Port de La Rochelle loop from Aytré Plage

66.9km

03:49

180m

Intermediate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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November 25, 2021

Built around 1771, the Château de Buzay in La Jarne bears witness to the art of living experienced by the city of La Rochelle when privileged links were established between its port and the colonies of the New World. Spanning the ages, Buzay is a "living" home of a family who has lived there since its construction. On May 1, 1771, Pierre-Étienne Harouard, Lieutenant General of the Admiralty of La Rochelle and his wife, Marie Agathe Petit du Petit Val, had their daughter, Marie Louise Henriette, 3, laid the first stone of Buzay.
The "house in the fields" that they had built on their seigneury of La Jarne, six hundred steps from the Château du Beignon that Pierre Harouard, Pierre-Étienne's grandfather, bought in 1686, really too inconvenient for their taste.
Subsequently, sixteen years later, in February 1787, Marie Louise Henriette married a young officer, Étienne-Pierre de Montbron: the current owners are their descendants in direct line. Buzay's plans are from Ducret, a Parisian architect close to Jacques Ange Gabriel, called by the bishop of La Rochelle, Mgr de Crussol d'Uzès, to rebuild the cathedral in ruins after the siege of 1628. Without anyone knowing how, Harouard obtained the plans through the intermediary of the bishop, his friend, and appealed to Henri Tourneur, entrepreneur from La Rochelle, to implement them.
From then on, plan in hand, with the continual assistance of Harouard who supervised the work and specified his wishes in the details of the execution, Henry Tourneur built Buzay and his outbuildings, the gates enclosing the courtyard being in place, in five years, between 1771 and 1776.
The performers were local craftsmen, Dutour master mason in La Jarne, Wise master carpenter in Salles, Ferry and Girard stonemasons in La Rochelle, Robert ironworker in La Rochelle to name only the main ones. Between courtyard and garden, a completed type of this Louis XVI neoclassical style, recalling that it was in 1750 that the discovery of Pompeï began, little by little unearthed from the ashes that had buried it. Our architects were reconnecting with their great elders of yesteryear. The hypostyle on the courtyard side, the curved columns, the Ionic capitals, the pediment: so many obvious borrowings from ancient Greek architecture. chateaudebuzay.fr

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Location: La Jarne, La Rochelle, New Aquitaine, France

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Château de Buzay

1. Plage de Châtelaillon – Port du Loiron Fishing Huts loop from Châtelaillon-Plage

2. Plage de Châtelaillon – Carrelets du marais d'Yves loop from La Jarrie

3. La Rochelle – Port de La Rochelle loop from Aytré Plage

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