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The Château de Saint-Trys, located in Anse in the Rhône department, is a building dating from the 4th quarter of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. It is distinguished by its classical architecture, with a three-storey main house and two protruding pavilions, as well as a monumental staircase leading to a central forebody surmounted by a triangular pediment. The estate, surrounded by wood, offers from its terrace a panorama of the Saône valley. A cloister and outbuildings complete the whole, while its 30-hectare park, designed by landscape architect Jean-Marie Morel, retains two original plans dated from 1806 and 1807.

The seigneury of Saint-Trys was first owned by Pierre Scarron (1536–1607), king's adviser and provost of the merchants of Lyon, whose family retained the estate until its acquisition in 1672 by Jean-Baptiste Giraud, Lyon bourgeois. The Giraud family, owner until 1876, marked the history of the castle, notably with Jean Giraud (1729–?), a squire imprisoned in 1794, and his son Georges-Marie, heir to the estate. Today, the castle belongs to Count Dorick de Brosses and his wife, Countess Sybille, who organize private and professional events there.

Ranked a Historic Monument since 1975, the castle is protected for its facades, roofs and interior decoration on its ground floor and first floor, including remarkable rooms such as the library, the Turkish boudoir or the room of Rome. The coats of arms of the Scarron families (azure to the bred band of gold), Giraud (de gules au mors d'argent) and Brushes (three golden clovers on a background of d'azur) testify to his nobiliary and bourgeois heritage.

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