[3] The title of vidame of Chartres was, under the Ancien Régime, attached to the lands of [La] Ferté-Arnault.

Until shortly before the French Revolution the seigneur was Jean-Joseph de Laborde, an ennobled business man with progressive views, who was to be guillotined in 1794.

In July 2019 a collector’s gathering was held at La Ferté for Citroën to mark the company's 100th anniversary.

The Château de la Ferté-Vidame was substantially rebuilt by the architect Antoine Matthieu Le Carpentier in 1771.

On her death in 1821, the domaine passed to her eldest son Louis-Philippe I, future king of the French.