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Translated from the site:
To make knowledge with this beautiful feudal residence it is necessary to take the road which goes up towards the church and forks then in the direction of the station. Of course, it is not the primitive castle which will appear. That one was burned by active Bernois with the help of Geneva into 1530, at the same time as well of other castles of the lords of the league of the Spoon extremely eager to swallow, according to their own expression, the city of the end of the lake.
The history of the seigniory of Allaman appears to be animated: sale, resale, put in pledge, assassination even, lord of the manor excommunicated for not-payment of a debt, then accumulated debts, etc. From the very start this seigniory played of misfortune because it concerned at the same time the lords of the place for a part and coseigneurs of Aubonne for the other, " Too many cooks spoil sauce " says one with reason. And it is understood that to the castle of Allaman one left a conflict to only enter another. After the fire of 1530 the castle mainly was rebuilt, altered in XVIIe century, and especially in 1723, year when it was bought by the marchioness of Langallerie, widow of a former General of cavalry. The marchioness establishes a train of considerable house there, receiving distinguished persons and organizing splendid festivals. The castle of Allaman lived its more beautiful days then, than only the death of the marchioness was to stop. Voltaire would have liked to acquire it but ran up against the refusal Net of LL.EE. from Bern which was not due to have to the medium of their possessions an atheist and even less one writer with the so frightening feather. A baillif bernois had even advised in Voltaire: " You said evil of good God, it to you will forgive it, because it is its trade, but never do not say evil of LL.EE, they would not never forgive it to you " illustrates It writer, one knows, ends it up being established in Ferney, two steps of the Swiss border. In 1755 the castle was bought by Gaspard Sellon, member of the Large Council of Geneva. Sellon accomodated there many refugees or politicians who liked themselves extremely in so charming places; for example Joseph Bonaparte ex-king d' Espagne, who, also, would have liked to him to go purchaser of the field; the duke of Bassano, the count de Cavour, minister of Victor-Emmanuel II, etc.A the death of Hortense de Sellon, in 1905, Allaman passed to his/her niece Mrs. de Loriol. After the death of Gerard de Loriol in 1973, it is the Inheritance of Loriol which governed the destinies of the field. Not for a long time: in 1976, it resold it at the Viticultural Company of Perroy. Description Extremely well preserved, and maintained especially well, the castle of Allaman has large air in the medium of a park admirable, and preceded by a vast court. The enclosing wall which still existed under the domination bernoise, was demolished by the marchioness of Langallerie, which removed at the same time ditches and drawbridges become useless, 3 turns of the east, north and the west. On the other hand it built the Eastern wing which ends in two elegant turrets of neo-gothic style.
One still owes with the marchioness of Langallerie the surmounted frontage of a triangular pediment to the angle of the two bodies of building, as well as the gate baroque with pediment stopped of the tower of north.
Despite everything these elements of various times, it should be recognized that the castle of Allaman shows an altogether coherent and extremely pleasant unit. The architects who followed one another there during four centuries knew to bring from the nine without harming old. The interior of the building is not less interesting. One finds there parts moyenâgeuses, in particular in the southern tower, a room of the guards, arched, of which the effect is impressive; dungeons whose iron gates are armed with large bolts, while the chains are still sealed with the wall; parts of reception of XVIIe and XVIIIe centuries.
Show of summer In the south of the castle the esplanade which advances above the road decorates of an artificial, pilot cave one time - the end of XVIIIe century - when reigned the taste of the ruins propagated by the famous French painter Hubert Robert, which failed to be guillotiné with the Revolution.
First stage: "Allegory of the five directions "(Wallpapers)
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