Above the parking area and the terraced gardens stands the long south front of the castle, roofless and with empty windows, with the Corinthian portal bearing a coat of arms in the middle and scaffolding on the right-hand part. Louis d'Arpajon (1590–1679), duke and peer of France, turned the old fortress into a Renaissance-style residence; fires and the use of the castle as a stone quarry in the 19th century left it in ruins, and it has been listed as a historic monument since 1922.