Today's Tourne-Bride, on the north side of the D4422, corresponds to a former roadside outbuilding of the château, where servants and visitors' horses would disembark.

In 1730, he was appointed Controller-General of Finances[6] and in the same year commissioned Charles-Joseph Natoire to paint a famous group of 21 canvases for the chateau, created between 1731 and 1740.

Eventually, the château's collections also included a Robert (Ruines d'un pont romain); a Boucher (Les Génies des Beaux-Arts); and works by lesser-known artists such as Claude François Desportes, son of Alexandre-François Desportes, (who offers the only known view of the château grounds), Michelangelo Cerquozzi, and Antoine Coypel.

During the winter of 1792, citoyen Lassertey, administrator of the Aube department, was commissioned to select works for the future Musée de Troyes10, which thus acquired a unique collection of Natoire's paintings.

What's more, with a total of 7 tonnes of rock of extraterrestrial origin unearthed by researchers, this is the largest collection of celestial objects of this type ever uncovered in France.