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Origin and history

The Château de la Tour-Penet is a monument located in the commune of Peronne, in Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy-Franche-Comté region. Built on a slope side, it consists of a body of rectangular houses flanked by three square towers, one of which houses a stone staircase of the seventeenth century. An inner courtyard, accessible by a carretier door in the middle of the hanger, is lined with commons, including a barn decorated with a carved palmette. In the east, a terraced garden once completed the whole, today private property.

The history of the castle probably dates back to the 17th century, when it was built on a land dependent on the seigneury of Vaux-sous-Targe. In 1842 Suzanne de Lamartine du Villars, canoness of Salles, left the estate to his nephew, the poet Alphonse de Lamartine. The latter sold it in 1850 to Monsieur de Contenson, with a wine estate of 90 hectares. In the 20th century, interior changes resulted in the disappearance of a 1702 chimney masked by a partition.

The castle, still inhabited, underwent notable changes in the distribution of its rooms, reflecting the successive adaptations of its owners. Although not open to the public, it bears witness to the architectural and historical heritage of the Saône-et-Loire, linked to figures like Lamartine. Its style, marked by attenuated defensive elements (square towers, carriageway door), evokes a transition between seigneurial manor and bourgeois agricultural residence.

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