The Carriage Museum
And the stables of the castle

Initially, those stables, transformed in the second half of the XIXth century, were a glass-factory producing bottles. This factory had been built in 1752 by the countess of Béthune and closed during the French revolution.

Those stables are entirely layed with cobblestones and include 15 stalls where you can still read the name of the horses that used to live there. Among others, you will find the oven used to prepare a special mixture for the horses: the mash, made of oat, wheat and flaxseed.

A part of this building has been transformed into a museum, where you can admire the impressive collection of XIXth century carriages. One of them, "La Grande Berline", was used to transport the remuneration of the working-man of Le Creusot. Indeed, Eugène II Schneider (1868-1942),the ironmaster of Le Creusot married Antoinette de Saint Sauveur, the owner of the castle of Apremont.