Jean Le Breton, who was the Controller-General for war for King Francis 1 built the chateau in the 16th century. It stayed in his family for two centuries until the Marquis de Castellane bought it. It was confiscated during the french revolution and then in the early nineteenth century Emperor Napoleon acquired it for his brother.
Joachim Carvallo (a Spanish doctor) and his wife Ann Coleman (an American heiress), who had met at a medical research facility in Paris, bought the chateau in 1906 and created the gardens that are there today. It is still owned by the Carvallo family.
WR Foster 