The current castle, the third on the property, in the Louis XIII style, was built between 1847 and 1849 by the architects Joseph-Antoine Froelicher and Clément Parent, was an important hunting centre when it was the favourite residence of the famous Duchess of Uzès.

The castle was later confiscated as an émigré's property, was demolished at the end of the 18th century during the upheaval caused by the French Revolution and the succeeding Napoleonic rule.

The third, and current, château was built between 1847 and 1849, in a style "indistinctly reminiscent of the Renaissance and Louis XIII", by the architects Joseph-Antoine Froelicher and Clément Parent for Géraud de Crussol d'Uzès (1808–1872), 11th Duke of Uzès, who used part of his wife's fortune to fund it.

The former Françoise de Talhouët-Roy, she was heiress, through her mother, to a portion of the enormous landed estate of Count Antoine Roy (also a Minister of Finance).

[1] After World War II, the castle was sold in 1945, becoming the home of the White Fathers Seminary (French: Séminaire des Pères blancs).

In 1972, the castle and the adjoining college served as a filming location for the first two parts of Le Jeune Fabre by Cécile Aubry, broadcast in 1973.

[7] The castle park, which became the property of the French National Forests Office in 2018, is undergoing development work in order to open it to the public.