It is still owned by descendants of Marquis de Chastellux who was second in command ( 1780 to 1782) to the Comte de Rochambeau who led the French military contingent during the American War of Independence.
Here Octavia Walton met Dr. Henry Strachey Le Vert, the son of a French physician who served as General Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau's field surgeon during the American Revolutionary War.
Franche-Comté | comte | Comte de Lautréamont | Auguste Comte | Rochambeau | Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse | Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau | Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon | Charles Hector, comte d'Estaing | Comte | Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally | Louis, comte de Narbonne-Lara | Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | Ezéchiel du Mas, Comte de Mélac | Comte de Saint-Germain (french comic) | Comte de Saint-Germain | Comte de Rochambeau | Claude Louis, Comte de Saint-Germain | Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy | University of Franche-Comté | Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy | François de Montmorency, ''comte de Bouteville | Comte de Pierredon | Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes | Charles Comte | Brie-Comte-Robert | Béville-le-Comte | Antoine, 1st comte de Noailles | Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine | the comte d'Estaing |
In 1780 he was given command of the naval forces of the Expédition Particulière, which carried the French army of the Comte de Rochambeau to Newport, Rhode Island.
Barras was persuaded by the Comte de Rochambeau to instead go southwards and rendezvous with Admiral De Grasse who had brought his French fleet from the West Indies.
Le Comte de Rochambeau, Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, marched through and camped in the town during the American Revolutionary War on his way from landing at Narragansett Bay to join George Washington's forces on the Hudson River in 1781.