In the XVIth century, there
was a "tour de guet" (look-out tower)
situated on the slope of a hill, overlooking the
Saône Valley and facing the Alps. It is
now in the North wing of the house.
During the XVIIIth century, the
Nicolaus, Lords of Montribloud, are said to have
built a hunting lodge.
At the beginning of the XIXth century, Madame
Barthelemy de Ferrus de Plantigny, née
de Montribloud, inherited it. Then it passed
by marriage to the Romanet de Lestrange
(great-grand-parents of the well-knowned
pilot and author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
who gave the name of Lestrange or l'Hestrange
to the estate.
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In 1889, Monsieur Louis Félix
Billard from Alexandria (Egypt) bought it. He
brought back from one of his trips two sphinxes
which stand on the terrace today.
In April 2000, Laurent Metge-Toppin, Oenologist,
wine broker in London, and great-grand-nephew
of Théodore de Lestrange, bought
back the estate, with his wife Blandine.
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