It was inherited by Sourches' daughter-in-law, Louise-Élisabeth de Croÿ, Marquise de Tourzel (and future Duchess of Tourzel), Governess of the Children of France from July 1789, who took part in the flight to Varennes and was imprisoned at the Square du Temple with the royal family in August 1792 during the French Revolution.

[7] During the German occupation of France during World War II from 1940 to 1945, the large cellars of the castle were used by the French State to shelter a number of large paintings from the Louvre, some furniture from the Palace of Versailles, the Bayeux Tapestry,[8] and several important private collections belonging to Jewish families, including the Wildenstein and David-Weill families.

[9][10] In 1956, Louis Charles Marie de Pérusse des Cars (1909–1961), 6th Duke of Cars, put the estate at the disposal of the Sanders company (which had been founded by Belgian chemist Louis Sanders in 1910),[11] of which the Duke was Chairman and CEO, who used it as an animal nutrition research center.

Many cultural and sporting events are organized there permanently, hunting festival, the first Sunday in July, agricultural shows, theater, cinema, concert, conferences.

The film was an adaptation of the tale Mme de La Pommeraye, a story in Denis Diderot's novel Jacques the Fatalist.