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Origin and history

The manor house of Saint-Hubert, located in Chavenon in the Allier, has its origin as a hunting lodge of the castle of Laly in the Montet. In the 19th century, it was enlarged and transformed by its owner, taking on the look of a bourgeois house surrounded by agricultural outbuildings. This work was accompanied by the creation of a naturalist-style park, designed by the Treyve family, vichyssois landscapers inspired by the theories of Count Paul de Lavanne de Chulot, famous for his influence on the art of gardens, especially in the Vesinet Park.

The estate was then handed over by inheritance to several families: the Favardin, then the Piat, and finally the Michelon. In 2006, according to the wishes of the descendants of the last owners, the mansion became an Orthodox monastery attached to the Moscow Patriarchate. This project was overseen by the Orthodox monastery of the icon of the Mother of God Znamené, based in Marcenat in the Cantal, thus marking a spiritual and cultural conversion of the site.

Today, the Château de Saint-Hubert is less distinguished by its architecture than by its park, considered a remarkable testimony of the Treyve's know-how and the landscape heritage of the Count of Choulot. Although often referred to as a "château" or "manor house", the site is more of a bourgeois home with agricultural land, reflecting the social and aesthetic transformations of the 19th century in Auvergne.

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