Château de Failloux
Although falling within the administrative area of the commune of Jeuxey, the site of Failloux is isolated from the village and is located closer to the town of Épinal.
The features of manor house are similar to those common to many 18th-century stately homes and comprises two dovecotes, a bell-tower, outbuildings, and a park.
Some time around 1772, the rear part of the castle was widened, and fireplaces (à la royale” (with a large mirror above) added to two reception rooms.
In one of the fireplaces, an iron plate on the bottom of the hearth is decorated with a capped blazon of a royal crown and flowers with lily.
The roof with croups with four sides is covered with slates, and is dominated by a steeple of a bell dating back to 1625, and engraved "Jesus Maria".
Built on the left side of the castle, the orangery was preceded by a small garden with in its center a water basin and a spray.
After this date, the owner of the time, a retired officer, back from the colonies, converted it into a transitory factory of buttons of mother-of-pearl, used to equip the soldiers of the many barracks of the area.
The city was condemned to pay an exorbitant sum of thirty thousand French francs with Barrois and must demolish at its own expense the castle and the fortifications.
In 1736, the duke Francis III, son of Léopold and his wife the archduchess Maria Theresa, heiress of the House of Habsburg.
To spare feelings, the duchies were not immediately annexed in France but given for life to the father-in-law of Louis XV, the former king of Poland, Stanisław Leszczyński, who, since 1737, was the last sovereign duke.
On August 13, 1761, François-Léopold Masson, lord of Failloux, accommodates Ladies of France, Adelaïde and Victoire, daughters of Louis XV, at the time of their passage to Épinal, on the road of very in-vogue terms of Plombières-les-Bains.
Two years after the death of F. L. Masson, on 21 July 1767, for problems of succession and because of the too great number of heirs, the estate was put on sale.
In 1768, François Loyal, receiver of the sums of money of the town of Épinal, and his wife, bought the fief of Failloux, which they resold four years later.
One of his cousins, Pierre-Maurice Collinet de la Salle, did not have as much chance, and was placed in front of Revolutionary Tribunal, condemned and executed in Paris, the same day as Charlotte Corday.
With the death of Charles-François-Xavier Collinet de la Salle, which occurred in his castle on November 21, 1813, his three children inherited the Failloux and others.
It makes it possible, indeed, to supervise the roads, which, coming from Rambervillers, give access, by Poissompré, to the suburbs of the Michaelmas and Ambrail, in the center of the city.
It arises from the testimonies transcribed in "The army of the East" that: The combat lasted four hours, leaving the prefect time to transfer his administration, the material of the railroad, the case of general treasury of a value of 4 million, and 400 wounded in a military hospital.
With the death of Charles-François-Xavier Collinet de la Salle in 1863, the estate of Failloux became nothing more but one simple place of dwellings and farms.
One of them cut down an alley of oaks centenaries connecting the castle to the way of Failloux, located on the other side of the current expressway (RN 57).
