Attend the round table: "restore and make live a castle today"

Name: Asista a la mesa redonda: "Restaurar y mantener un castillo hoy"
Start: 2023-09-15T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-15T19:30:00+02:00
Location: Château de Vaux

European Heritage Days 2023

Viernes 15 septiembre 2023, 18:00Passed

Herramientas de registro

06 88 85 50 57 exposition@aube.fr

Aube Champagne

This event closes the conference cycle of the exhibition "Les Château de l'Aube: A thousand years of history (Hôtel-Dieu-le-Comte in Troyes", until October 1, 2023) by addressing the current issues of the valorization of several Aubois castles.
Hosted by Éric Mension-Rigau, professor of contemporary history (Université Paris-Sorbonne IV) and specialist of the nobility elites, this round table is an opportunity to exchange with lords and professionals of heritage conservation and restoration (buildings and gardens).
In particular, it will address the issues of openness to the public, the challenge of managing restoration works and the existing human and financial institutional resources to support and support these initiatives. The diversity of speakers will allow to address several examples such as the enhancement of a family home or the tourism of a castle.
Participants:
• Edouard Guyot, owner of the Château de Vaux;
• Charles and Ségolène de Taisne, owners of the Château des Riceys-Bas;
• Dominique Popihn, owner of the Château de Saint-Benoist-sur-Vanne;
• Guillaume Delpech, President of the Association de sauvegarde du château de Dampierre;
• Jean-Philippe Cauquelin, architect of the Aube French buildings;
• Juliette Mosdier-Pierre, architect and engineer of cultural services and heritage at the Regional Conservation of Historic Monuments (DRAC Grand Est).

About the location

Château de Vaux

Fontaine aux Dames, 10260 Fouchères

Aube
Grand Est

The construction of the current castle began in the eighteenth century, but, from the twelfth century, it is mentioned a feudal castel surrounded by moats and walls. In a sad state at the end of the seventeenth century, the seigneurial house was razed to give way, a few years later, to what is considered today as one of the most beautiful architectural ensembles of the department.
At the end of 1720, a rich Trojan family began the construction of the new castle. Jacques d'Aubeterre, Comte de Jully, commissioned the plans from one of the most brilliant architects of his time: Germain Boffrand. Student of Jules Hardouin Mansart, he realized among others the castle of Lunéville for the Duke of Lorraine or the Hotel de Soubise in Paris, current National Archives.
It is the young architect Philippe de La Force who will follow the yard and will bring the stones, on the back of mule, of Tonnerre (45 kilometers) and the slates by boat from Paris. This titanic shipyard ruined its owner who died