A bedroom with a gilded bed and floral wallpaper

Accommodation

Ninety‑four sleeping, all on the estate.

Why it decides the booking

Nobody drives home

Seventeen bedrooms in the château, one apartment and the bungalows in the woods. Ninety‑four people sleep on the estate.

This is the part that decides most bookings, and it is worth being precise about. Every one of your guests sleeps here. The wedding party wakes up under the same roof as you, breakfast happens on the estate at whatever hour people appear, and the day after happens by the pool rather than a coach to a hotel in town.

The green drawing room and its striped sofas
A bedroom with chinoiserie wallpaper and an upholstered bed
The Eugénie bedroom, its blossom wallpaper and red lacquer desk
A bedroom with a blue upholstered bed and dark wallpaper
A grey bedroom and its wall of framed pictures
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The names of the rooms

You will sleep in Monet, or in Renoir, or in Sisley

The bedrooms of the château are named after the painters Paul Durand‑Ruel spent his life defending, when the rest of Paris was calling them lunatics. Pissaro and Degas are downstairs, off the park. Monet, Renoir and Cézanne are on the second floor, under the roof, with mezzanines. The rest of the house is named for the century it was built in: Napoléon III, Eugénie, Joséphine, M. Antoinette.

It is a small thing, and it is the kind of small thing your guests will remember, because they will tell each other which room they were given.

The sitting room of the suite, striped armchairs and tall windows
A bathroom with a timber surround and a glass basin

The ground floor, opening onto the park

Three bedrooms with their own shower rooms, a few steps from the jazz bar, each opening straight onto the grounds. Around eighteen square metres.

King
King
Two singles
Room 34, Pissaro
Room 34, Pissaro (2)
Room 34, Pissaro (3)
Room 34, Pissaro (4)
Room 35, Sisley
Room 35, Sisley (2)
Room 36, Degas
Room 36, Degas (2)
Room 36, Degas (3)

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Room 37, The Bridal Suite
Room 37, The Bridal Suite (2)
Room 37, The Bridal Suite (3)
Room 37, The Bridal Suite (4)
Room 37, The Bridal Suite (5)
Room 37, The Bridal Suite (6)
Room 37, The Bridal Suite (7)
Room 37, The Bridal Suite (8)
Room 38, Monet
Room 38, Monet (2)
Room 38, Monet (3)
Room 38, Monet (4)
Room 38, Monet (5)
Room 39, Renoir
Room 39, Renoir (2)
Room 39, Renoir (3)
Room 39, Renoir (4)
Room 39, Renoir (5)
Room 39, Renoir (6)
Room 40, Sophia
Room 40, Sophia (2)
Room 40, Sophia (3)
Room 40, Sophia (4)
Room 40, Sophia (5)
Room 40, Sophia (6)
Room 41, Cézanne
Room 41, Cézanne (2)
Room 41, Cézanne (3)
Room 41, Cézanne (4)
Room 41, Cézanne (5)
Room 41, Cézanne (6)

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The second floor, and the bridal suite

Four large rooms with mezzanines, made for families, and the suite.

King. A bedroom, a dressing room, a kitchenette, a bathroom with both bath and shower, its own lounge, and a balcony over the park
Queen, plus a single on the mezzanine
King, plus a king on the mezzanine
Queen, plus a king on the mezzanine
Queen and a single, plus a king on the mezzanine

The whole floor was refurbished, it shares a lounge and a kitchenette for breakfast, and every window looks out onto the grounds.

The top floor

Nine more bedrooms under the roof, and the Hunting Lodge, the room where one of the two parties traditionally gets ready.

King
Queen and a single
Queen
Double and a single
Double and a single
Queen
Queen
Queen
Queen
Room 42, Napoléon III
Room 42, Napoléon III (2)
Room 42, Napoléon III (3)
Room 42, Napoléon III (4)
Room 43, JJ Rousseau
Room 43, JJ Rousseau (2)
Room 43, JJ Rousseau (3)
Room 44, Bonaparte
Room 44, Bonaparte (2)
Room 44, Bonaparte (3)
Room 45, Eugénie
Room 45, Eugénie (2)
Room 46, Mary
Room 46, Mary (2)
Room 46, Mary (3)
Room 46, Mary (4)
Room 46, Mary (5)
Room 46, Mary (6)
Room 47, Victoria
Room 47, Victoria (2)
Room 47, Victoria (3)
Room 47, Victoria (4)
Room 48, Aliénor
Room 48, Aliénor (2)
Room 48, Aliénor (3)
Room 48, Aliénor (4)
Room 49, Joséphine
Room 49, Joséphine (2)
Room 49, Joséphine (3)
Room 50, M. Antoinette
Room 50, M. Antoinette (2)
Room 50, M. Antoinette (3)
Room 50, M. Antoinette (4)

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Beyond the château

Around the estate

The apartment, the living rooms
The apartment, the living rooms (2)
The apartment, the living rooms (3)
The apartment, the living rooms (4)
The apartment, the living rooms (5)
The apartment, the living rooms (6)
The apartment, the living rooms (7)
The apartment, the living rooms (8)
The apartment, bedroom one
The apartment, bedroom one (2)
The apartment, bedroom one (3)
The apartment, bedroom one (4)
The apartment, bedroom two
The apartment, bedroom two (2)
The apartment, bedroom two (3)
The apartment, bedroom three
The apartment, bedroom three (2)
The apartment, bedroom three (3)
The apartment, bedroom four
The apartment, bedroom four (2)
The apartment, bedroom four (3)

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The apartment

One hundred and eighty square metres in the old stable block, restored throughout. A large reception room and a fully fitted open-plan kitchen downstairs, four double bedrooms with modern bathrooms upstairs. Sleeps eight. It cannot be taken on its own: it is let with the estate, as an addition to a privatisation.

Reception room, open-plan kitchen, dining area
Double
Twin beds
Double
Double

The bungalows

Twenty‑one rooms in the woods, sleeping forty-two. Each one is a bungalow of its own, a bedroom with its own shower room, set in small clusters along the paths. Guests describe them as cabins in the woods, and they are the rooms people ask for again.

A bungalow, a woodland bungalow
A bungalow, the path between the bungalows
A bungalow, the bedroom and its window
A bungalow, the bedroom
A bungalow, the bedroom, second view
A bungalow, the shower
A bungalow, the bedroom seen from the door
A bungalow, bungalows under the trees

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The library drawing room, its shelves and its armchairs
Who sleeps where

The floor plans

Ground floor, first floor, second floor, top floor, drawn in 2017.

Ground-floor plan of Château de la Valouze, drawn in 2017
S = singleD = doubleQ = queenK = king

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