Sevigne Pavilion

Vichy had been frequented by French nobles well before the resort was upgraded by Napoleon III. Furthermore, one of its pre-famous visitors in the seventeenth century was the letter-author Madame de Sévigné, who came in the 1670s to treat joint inflammation in her grasp. The manor is by the waterway and when Vichy was at its pinnacle it was changed over into a lavish inn. In the war Marshal Pétain utilized this chateau as his mid year home, leaning toward the Hôtel du Parc in the winter months.

Nothing in the Marquise's writings allows one to decide. The only certainties, on the one hand, the future "Pavillon Sévigné" was built at the beginning of the 17th century by François Gravier and completed by his son Antoine, adviser of the King and Attorney at Gannat salt loft; Madame de Sevigne, on the other hand, stayed in Vichy from May 18th to June 14th, 1676, and from September 4th to 23rd, 1677, and afterwards made the best publicity in Vichy.