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Button Castle
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November 22, 2021
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Following the Second World War, his son Jacques offered to transfer the property to his friend Frédéric Joliot-Curie, then director of the National Center for Scientific Research. The deed of sale was signed in 1946. The CNRS set up its offices within the castle grounds and its laboratories in part of the park, but committed to preserving the estate as it was.
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Elevation 130 m
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