Château de Petit-Bourg

Around 1650, Monseigneur Louis Barber de La Rivière, Bishop of Langres, had gardens designed by François Mansart.

There, she realized important alteration work and charged André Le Nôtre with designing the gardens à la françaises, and staged in terraces.

Madame de Pompadour saw it while living in Étiolles - before being raised by the royal favour, and dreamed of this splendid residence.

When acquired by Marie Jacomel in 1750, widow of Louis Chauvelin, président à mortier at the Parlement of Paris, it was entirely demolished and replaced by a new château built in 1756 in the neoclassical style by the architect Jean-Michel Chevotet.

After having passed through several hands, it was acquired in 1827 by the banker Alexandre Aguado, marquis de Las Marismas, who accommodated his friend there, the type-setter Gioacchino Rossini and was elected mayor of Évry-on-Seine in 1831.