It is located in Chaumont, straddling the municipalities of Mainsat and La Serre-Bussière-Vieille, in the Creuse department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in central France.

[3] From 1939, the château was rented to the charity Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE) ("Children's relief work").

[7] The concert promoter Bill Graham, later based in San Francisco, also spent part of his childhood at the château as a child refugee of the Nazis before traveling to the United States.

[10] Mironnet's wife, alone in the château at the time of the fire, managed to escape from the flames by tying bed sheets through a window.

[11] In October 2022, Dan Preston, an English expatriate and founder of the YouTube channel Escape to rural France,[12] purchased the château and started its complete restoration.