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Origin and history

The château de Goujon is located at the entrance of Cossaye, in the Nièvre department, in Burgundy-Franche-Comté. It is part of an old, larger estate, including lands in several nearby municipalities such as Saint-Germain-Chassenay. This domain once belonged to the Prud'homme family before being divided. Since the 19th century, the castle has been associated with the Brivet family, which has made it its fief and renovated it. Its strategic location, on the heights of a valley crossed by the Acolin, reinforced its local importance.

The main building, built in the first half of the 19th century, is accompanied by various outbuildings: stables, dovecote and other agricultural buildings. These elements reflect both its residential and economic role. The castle is one of two buildings of this type in Cossaye, alongside the castle of the Grange, a modern 19th century building erected near the ruins of an ancient feudal castle destroyed during the Revolution.

Before the Brivet family, the estate was in the hands of the Prud'homme, a line whose influence extended to several communes. A branch of the Brivet family still has the mill "de la motte", located below the Acolin River. This mill, like the castle, bears witness to the historical anchoring of this family in the region and its role in the territorial and economic organization of Lower Nivernais.

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