[1] The Caroillons were rich and ambitious owners of ironworks under the Bourbon monarchy, employing many workers in harsh conditions.
[6] Claude Caroillon and his brothers were ennobled on the eve of the French Revolution, so-called "business aristocrats".
The Château was owned by Sir Philip Glower, a colonel of the English army and the heir of Elizabeth Pierrepont, Duchess of Kingston-upon-Hull.
In February 1791, he married Françoise-Aimée Magallon d'Amirail, daughter of a Santo Domingo planter, in the chapel of Saint-Assise.
That year, he purchased the château and its estate from Glower, who wanted to liquidate his French possessions due to political uncertainty.
[8] In 1793 he was imprisoned, but with the end of the Reign of Terror after 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) he avoided the guillotine, and some time later he was released.
She decided to sell the Château de Pontchartrain with 1,700 hectares (4,200 acres) of land, and on 19 April 1801 Destillières acquired the property for 1,600,000 francs.
[10] Destillières bought the Château du Raincy, and on 20 October 1806 resold it to Gabriel-Julien Ouvrard for 800,000 francs, payable in letters of exchange.