castle with pool for sale Vanlay, France

An 18th-century chateau listed as a historical monument where the writer Diderot stayed and that the fashion designer Lagerfeld owned, nestled in 13 hectares of grounds with outhouses. A long tree-lined driveway set back from a secondary road leads to a bridge that crosses the chateau’s moat. At the end of this bridge there is the property’s entrance gate. The chateau and its grand court lie on a rectangular earthen terrace. To the right of them, there is a swimming pool and large outhouses forming a U shape. The grounds extend behind the chateau, well beyond the moat. This vast rear section includes a stream and a patchwork of woodland and meadows that stretches to the River Marne and a private river beach. The chateau was built between 1720 and 1740 by Jean-Robert Volland, France’s chief salt tax officer. In 1755, his daughter Sophie was 39 years old when she met the writer and philosopher Denis Diderot, who was aged 42 at the time. Diderot stayed at the chateau on two occasions: in 1759 and 1770. His letters to Sophie Volland, written over a period of more than 14 years, form the most famous romantic correspondence of the 18th century. The property was sold for the first time in 1773. It then changed owners three times. In 2001, the renowned fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld bought the chateau. He then sold it in 2011. The chateau is currently rented out for short stays.

DIVA, a firm specializing in the real estate transaction of prestigious properties, offers for sale this magnificent 400 m² Château whose origins date back to 1860, built on a landscaped and wooded park of 4.7 hectares with a 1000 m² pond at only 1 hour from Paris. It is organized on three levels and a full basement with heated swimming pool. On the ground floor, under a ceiling of 2.30 meters, a vast entrance distributes a dining room, a living room and a library decorated with a marble fireplace, decorated with a point of Hungary parquet floor and moldings of era. Adjoining the dining room, a recent kitchen of 28 m², fitted and equipped, decorated with an Alsatian tiled stove. A bedroom with a separate toilet complete the set. From the living room, a walkway leads to a 54 m² south-facing terrace. From the entrance hall, an independent accommodation of 45 m², with private entrance, consisting of a kitchen, a living room, a bedroom, a bathroom and a separate toilet. On the first floor, a corridor distributes five bedrooms including a 30 m² master suite with a dressing room, a bathroom with shower and whirlpool bath with chromotherapy hydromassage and a toilet. From a bedroom, a south-facing terrace which will allow you to fully enjoy the beauty of the park. A bathroom and a separate toilet complete this level. The second floor constitutes a perfectly independent accommodation of approximately 120 m² composed of a fitted and equipped kitchen open to a living room decorated with a period marble fireplace, four bedrooms, a bathroom with toilet and a separate toilet. The living room and a bedroom open onto two balconies which also offer a breathtaking view of the park. The total, semi-buried basement consists of a heated counter-current swimming pool, a vaulted cellar, a boiler room, a shower room with toilets as well as numerous rooms dedicated to storage. . The park, some 45,700 m², partly wooded, is embellished with a 1000 m² pond and a 170 m² shed with a box and a garage. Nestled in a dynamic and welcoming village of 1721 inhabitants, on the left bank of the Seine, 7 km east of Montereau Fault Yonne, served by a train station linking the capital in 45 minutes, accessible by the A5 motorway, with from all the local and health shops, many cultural and sports associations and nursery and primary schools, this property out of sight will be suitable for both a main and secondary residence, for the operation of a commercial activity or for a rental investment. This castle, on a human scale, will seduce its future owners with its volumes, its architectural elegance and the refinement of its decoration and the materials chosen.