page_title: Château d'Augerville
section_title: Later
hierarchical_section_title: Château d'Augerville / History / Later
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Aile droite des communs du château d'Augerville
context_page_description: The Château d'Augerville is a historic château, situated in the commune of Augerville-la-Rivière, Loiret, France. It is a monument historique, a national heritage site of France.
context_section_description: The château was auctioned off in 1825. At that time it was described as being having forty-six rooms on three floors, with the south facade overlooking the park and including thirty-four windows and three doors. The northern facade at the time was noted to have thirty windows overlooking the main courtyard.  The estate was purchased by Antoine Pierre Berryer, advocate and counselor to the French parliament.  He spent much of his time restoring and expanding the property.  His notable guests at the estate included François-René de Chateaubriand, Alexandre Dumas, fils, Franz Liszt, Gioachino Rossini, Alfred de Musset, and Eugène Delacroix.  Following the death of Berryer in 1868, the estate went to his sister.  She continued to make improvements.  With her death, the property again passed to an absentee owner and was largely neglected.  It was bought by Count de Pange in 1912.  He restored facades, the gardens, and lands before reselling to industrialist Felix Mouton in 1919.
  In the summer of 1926 the estate was purchased by American socialite Alva Belmont, formerly Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt, who restored it as her primary residence.  It had been one of several inspirations for her châteauesque-style Petit Château in Manhattan.  Her daughter, Consuelo Vanderbilt (who had married Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough), wrote that she thought that Jacques Cœur's reported ownership had partially inspired her mother to buy the estate.  Belmont did much restoration and renovation during her ownership.  She had the river flowing through the estate widened because she said, as Consuelo later wrote, "This river is not wide enough."  She brought in paving stones from Versailles to cover the previously sand-paved great forecourt between the house and the village.  She had a massive neo-Gothic portal gate erected on the northern entrance road, separating the château and village from the surrounding farmland.  Changes inside the château included replacement of the wrought iron staircases and moving the kitchens to the basement.  She also added a bowling alley in one of the buildings on the estate, one of the first in France.  After her death in 1933, the chateau was left to Consuelo, who sold it to a Swiss company in the winter of 1937.
  From 1986 to 1989, the château and 272-acre (110 ha) estate were resold twice.  It is now a  luxury hotel, complete with a golf course.  The course, established in 1995, has 18 holes and was designed by Olivier Dongradi.
caption: One of the forecourt buildings of the château.
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