Come and relax in a restful, rural setting near the home of what was once a holiday resort for the famous Louis Pasteur as well as those close to them, but not only!
For more than two centuries, Marrault was the largest stronghold of the Jaucourt family. When Jean de Jaucourt, after the death of Charles the Bold, sided with Mary of Burgundy against Louis XI, the latter had the castle of Marrault dismantled, the last vestiges of which almost entirely disappeared in the 19th centurye. However, Jacques de Ganay, who acquired the fief in 1716, soon afterwards began building the present château, which does not appear to have been completed until around 1735 by the architect Bruno Calcia. After the death of Jacques de Ganay (1743), Marrault passed in turn to his cousin Nicolas de Ganay, to Jean-Baptiste Gitton de la Rebellerie, and then to his son Gitton de Magny, who sold Marrault to Bertier de Sauvigny. In the 19th centurye, the castle was bought by Dr Guiard, whose grandson, René Vallery-Radot, married Pasteur's daughter. The great scientist stayed here several times, most notably in 1885, when he was anxiously awaiting the effects of his first rabies vaccine inoculation. After his grandson, Professor Pasteur-Vallery-Radot, the château became the property of a company and then, finally, of the current owner, who maintains it with great taste and respect.
Extract from Dictionnaire des Châteaux de France, Bourgogne et Nivernais, p. 190, Françoise Vignier
