Le château de Longes est un château du xviie siècle qui se dresse sur la commune de Sulignat dans le département de l'Ain et la région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Il a succédé à une ancienne maison forte du xiiie siècle, qui fut centre de la seigneurie de Longes.
Le château fait l’objet d’une inscription partielle au titre des monuments historiques par arrêté du 19 mars 1991. Seuls les façades et toitures ainsi que la chapelle sont inscrits.
Situation
Le château de Longes est situé dans le département français de l'Ain sur la commune de Sulignat.
Histoire
En 1240 Barthélemy de Saint-Cyr, chevalier, était seigneur de la maison-forte de Longes. En 1288 Guy de Saint-Cyr, son fils, damoiseau, en rend hommage au comte de Savoie.
Des de Saint-Cyr, la seigneurie passa aux Sauvage, seigneurs de Marmont. En 1323, Étienne Sauvage de Marmont la laisse à Odet, son fils.
Par son testament du 14 janvier 1436, Hugonin de Marmont la transmet à Jean, son fils aîné. Louise de Marmont la porta en mariage à Philibert Andrevet, deuxième du nom, dans la famille duquel elle restera jusqu'à Claude Andrevet, chevalier, qui la donnera à Jeanne Aleman, sa veuve. Cette dernière épousera en deuxièmes noces Alexandre-René de Rossi, gentilhomme ordinaire du duc de Savoie, et vendit Longes, le 22 mars 1590, à Hélène d'Aguerre, femme de François de Chabeu, seigneur de Feillens et de Saint-Nizier-le-Désert, qui ne laissa que deux filles.
Longes échut à Lucrèce Chabeu, veuve, en 1602, d'Edme de la Forest, seigneur de Grammont, et, en 1649, de Philippe Dinet, écuyer, seigneur de Saint-Romain. Marie-Madeleine Dinet, sa petite-fille, recueillit Longes dans sa succession et le porta en mariage à Jean-Claude Charbonnier, conseiller du roi, qui en reprit le fief en 1670.
Il passa ensuite à la famille Toublanc, à la suite de l'acquisition qu'en fit Jacques Toublanc, de M. Charbonnier de Crangeat, le 9 avril 1739, et par la suite à la famille Garron de La Bévière, par vente consentie, au prix de 422 000 livres, le 20 octobre 1765, par Jeanne Grand, veuve de Jacques Toublanc, à Antoinette Turban, veuve de Joseph-Ignace-Bernard Garron de la Bévière, ancien capitaine au régiment de Condé.
Le château de Longes fut reconstruit, en partie, en 1674.
Chapelle castrale
Au xviiie siècle, un service régulier se faisait dans la chapelle du château, qui fut restaurée au xixe siècle.

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The Château de Loriol is a castle located Confrançon in France. It was originally built by Barthelemy de Sachins in 1324 on his seigneurie of Asnières les Bois in Bresse (Ain) and has never been alienated from the descendants of this family. It was part of the dowry of Françoise de Chacipol in 1535 and the de Loriol family has held this property until the present day. It is for this reason that the property has been known as the chateau de Loriol since the 17th century. The current holder of the property is Arnaud Duport de Loriol, 8th comte de Loriol (LP1743)
The castle was restored in 1860 by architect Charles Martin, in a transitional Gothic / Renaissance style. The building, including a dungeon from the 13th century, escaped damage from World War II.

Château de Loriol

Corcelles, a family domain spanning the centuries
The Richard family took over this prestigious domain in 1984 with the intention of making great wines in a breathtaking location.
Château de Corcelles Estate has a rich history thanks to the legacy of previous generations. The Richard family has proudly continued the tradition and brought a new focus to bear on the quality of the wines.
Here are some key dates of the Corcelles estate:
In the 15th century Antoine de Laye decided to rebuild the Château de Corcelles on the foundations of a much older stronghold, built during the Carolingian period. At that time, the Douby River, which flows a few meters from the Château, was the boundary between the dioceses of Autun and Lyon and the counties of Burgundy and Beaujolais. Today, the river marks the border between the administrative departments of Saône et Loire and Rhône.
In the 16th century, the Château became the property of the Ragny de La Magdeleine family. The family played a key role, especially by incorporating the French Renaissance style that characterizes the inner courtyard of the Château.
At the end of the 16th century, and for the next four hundred years, the Château was owned by the Tircuy de La Barre family. Gradually, the name of La Barre was replaced by Corcelles.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the Chateau underwent a complete roof restoration in order to hold a private banquet.
The Château has been listed as a National Heritage since 4 February 1927.
http://www.chateaudecorcelles.fr

Château de Corcelles-en-Beaujolais

The history of Château de Chasselas dates back to the 14th century with the Lords of Chasselas. Set in the heart of the village of Chasselas, which gave its name to the famous grape variety, the estate currently covers 6 hectares. Visitors enter the estate (listed as a historic monument) by a beautiful drive running through the vineyards, before arriving at a vast interior courtyard. The estate’s long tradition of winemaking continues with its new owners Jean-Marc Veyron la Croix and Jacky Martinon. Since taking over in 1999, they have taken great pains to develop high quality wines that reflect the identity of their terroir.
http://www.burgundyeye.com/wine/winegrowers-merchants/macon-cluny-tournus/domaine-chateau-de-chasselas-chasselas/

Château de Chasselas

A little history to explain the architecture...
The site of Fléchères has been of great strategical significance for millenia. It controlled the approach to the Saône, where the ford at Grelonges afforded a relatively easy crossing. Beyond, one reached the Beaujolais hills and the way towards the west of France.
A Roman camp undoubtedly preceded the fortified castle of which the existence is attested from the 12th century.
In 1606, the lordship of Fléchères was bought from some protestant nobles, who had left to settle in Geneva, by Jean Sève, himself a Calvinist.
After having escaped the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572 in Lyon, and after two periods of exile in Geneva, he played an important rôle in the uprising which lead to Lyon coming back under the authority of Henry IV (1594).
As a Treasurer of France, he was one of the richest and most influential men in Lyon at the beginning of the 17th century.
As Regent of the Hospital of La Charité, created for the poor, he had built an entire wing at his own expense.
After becoming Alderman and then Provost of Merchants (1612-13), he was ennobled, thanks to these positions.
The building of a château was seen as an obligatory step for establishing this nobility "de cloche" (an allusion to the clocks of the municipal belfries).
Meanwhile, the size of the building, unusual for the Lyonnais, and above all the preservation of its medieval appearance, (moat, ramparts, corner towers, fortified entrance, drawbridge) must above all have helped to give credibility to the family legend which made the de Sèves direct descendants of a celebrated feudal family of Piedmont, known from the 13th century, the Marquises of Seva.
The design of the main building, with its grand central portion on three floors flanked by smaller wings, is surprising. 
It is explained by the presence of a Calvinist temple of 250 m2 on the third floor of the central building, lit by seven windows on each façade.
After the Edict of Nantes (1595), the number of temples were strictly limited but nobles could own a "stronghold temple" in one of their lordships (around 4000 in France).
Since no external sign of function was allowed, the three dormer windows to the south and north are of an unusual size in order to symbolise the Holy Trinity.
Leaving to God the place of honour, the private apartments are consigned to the smaller wings and the towers.
http://www.chateaudeflecheres.com