Visit and investigation of Vidocq at the Château de Vaux

SARL Château de Vaux

Born into a Trojan family of royal officers, Jacques d'Aubeterre, a cavalry captain, inherited the land of Vaux from his father at the beginning of the 18th century. He married the daughter of his neighbor Louis-François Hennequin, seigneur of Charmont and member of the King's Councils, and obtained the erection of his lands of Vaux and Jully into a county. Around 1716, he commissioned Germain Boffrand, one of the best architects of the Regency period, to draw up plans for a grand residence to match his success.
Perhaps he thought a little big, as the work fell behind schedule and creditors began to worry. By the time of his death in 1726, the interior fittings were far from complete. His son had settled in Bavaria in the service of the Elector, a French ally and future emperor. He only returned to the château's only habitable apartment to die in 1754.
It was another six years before the Marquis de Montmort, who had bought the estate, had the apartments completed.
Charlemagne-Émile de Maupas, who bought the estate in 1855, was close to Napoleon III and a key player in the coup d'état that led to the Second Empire. He had the apartments where he retired modernized and lived a brilliant life until his death in 1888.
Abandoned before the Second World War, then uninhabited, the château suffered a long decline until Philippe Vallery-Radot, in 1971, had the most urgent conservation work carried out. Once again in a state of oblivion that, in everyone's eyes, can only lead to inevitable ruin, it was acquired in 2015 by Mr. Edouard Guyot, who has courageously undertaken to bring it back to life.
At Vaux, the quality of the architecture goes hand in hand with that of its grandiose setting. This majestic Regency residence is magnificently enhanced by its location in the middle of a vast clearing, at the end of a large, straight driveway, over two kilometers long, carved out of a forest valley.

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The tour of the estate includes an investigation game. During your unaccompanied tour of the estate, you'll be able to see for yourself the ravages of time, but also the finesse of its carvings and the beauty of its wood panelling, moving vestiges of the splendours of the past, now extinguished but just waiting to be rekindled! You'll also be able to admire the latest restoration work carried out at the château, with a room entirely dedicated to the work and the huge active worksite at Vaux!

Whether with family or friends, the Château de Vaux can be explored in a fun and entertaining way, in a setting steeped in history and surrounded by nature, to the delight of young and old alike!
And if you manage to solve all the riddles along the way, you'll be in with a chance of winning a bottle of champagne at the daily prize draw!

A playground with 30 antique wooden games and a picnic area will round off your visit, making for an unforgettable day at Château de Vaux!

This summer, come and play detective at Vaux and support the rescue of a masterpiece that you can all help to save!

OPEN every day in July and August, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. (last admission at 6 p.m.).
(Open to the public from March to November)