Château de La Motte-Tilly is a

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in the commune of

La Motte-Tilly La Motte-Tilly is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France. The Château de La Motte-Tilly is situated in the commune. Population See also *Communes of the Aube department The following is a list of the 431 communes of the ...

, south-west of

Nogent-sur-Seine Nogent-sur-Seine () is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France. The headquarters of The Soufflet Group is located here, as is the Musée Camille Claudel. The large Nogent Nuclear Power Plant is located here. Population ...

Aube Aube () is a French department in the Grand Est region of north-eastern France. As with sixty departments in France, this department is named after a river: the Aube. With 310,242 inhabitants (2019),France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

. It is on the left bank of the

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and has been open to the public since 1978. The château is managed by the ''Centre des monuments nationaux''. The old castle, was first recorded in 1369. It was surrounded by a moat (which is still visible) and belonged to the lords of Trainel, then to the Raguier family, followed by the Elbeyne and Bournonville families. Finally in 1710

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gave it to Marshal

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. The old castle was demolished and a new manor house was built in 1755 according to a design by the

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François-Nicolas Lancret. The new structure was intended to be a hunting lodge.

References

External links

Official website
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