History of the monument
At the end of the 16th century, Brantôme, the chronicler of the Court of Valois, was surprised that the highlights of the life of "Jacques Galiot, Grand Equerry of France" were hardly talked about any longer. Indeed, when three centuries later the ruins of the magnificent château of Galiot were used as a barn for fodder, it did not cause a stir. Yet the western wing of what was, in the 16th century according to Brantôme, "the most beautiful house of France that one would have to see", had been listed as a historic monument in 1841 by a certain Prosper Mérimée.