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Origin and history

The Château de Sorques, also known as the Château de Sorgues, is a building located in Montigny-sur-Loing, Seine-et-Marne, on the banks of the Loing River. It is located at the western end of the hamlet of Sorques, from which it derives its name, and its current address is 68 rue Aimé-Lepercq. This estate succeeds a first castle, now extinct, which housed a chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin in 1786. At that time, the owner was Marie-Françoise-Élisabeth Bourdin, widow of Louis Coeuret d'Ozigny, corrector of the Accounts.

The present castle was built on the site of the old building. In the 19th century, it was acquired by Count Raymond Lavaurs, mayor of Montigny-sur-Loeng from 1870 to 1874. His family, including his wife Jeanne Bizot, lived there until the 1890s, when they moved to the villa Saint-Joseph (later Villa Lavaus) in Fontainebleau. At the beginning of the 20th century, the estate belonged to a Mr Pascal. The architecture of the present castle is distinguished by its symmetry and its four levels, with nine columns of windows.

The hamlet of Sorques, where the castle stands, historically depended on the Abbey of Ferrières and was governed by the custom of Lorris. This medieval and religious context has marked local history, although the present castle is a more recent construction. Its strategic location, near the Loing, reflects the importance of rivers in the implantation of seigneurial estates and then bourgeois in Île-de-France.

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