Château de Vaire-le-Grand

At the Château de Vaire-le-Grand, in the Doubs, visitors find green rooms, pools, yews clipped in topiary and covered walks. Gabriel Boisot, first president of the Parlement of Franche-Comté and a loyal servant of Louis XIV, was ennobled by the king and acquired the barony of Vaire in 1702, where only the ruins of a fortress remained.

It was not until 1713 and his son Jean-Antoine that the site was rebuilt as a classical château, completed in 1717. In an exceptional setting, the château is typical of the sober architecture of the early 18th century. One of its treasures is its remarkable French formal garden, an example of 18th-century landscape art combining architecture and greenery: a series of terraces designed to give the illusion of taking in the surrounding countryside.

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