Château de Jeurre

In 1412 there was a tower of Jeurre, in the Essonne, also called the 'château de Barre'. The estate where the present château stands was bought in 1792 by Louis-César Dufresne de Saint-Léon, director general for the settlement of the public debt.

His goddaughter, wife of Count Mollien, Napoleon's Minister of the Treasury, undertook major works, building two pavilions forming a wing and laying out the park. A new farm was built in the park in 1810-1811, followed by a dovecote the next year, and the gardener's house dates from 1813. Around 1900 a three-sided projection with an onion dome, decorated with elements from two Paris mansions, was added to the west façade.

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