Château Soutard: Henri du Foussart de Bogeron
After the death of Raoul d’Allard in 1909 the estate passed to his sister Marie d’Allard, who in 1889 had married Baron Henri du Foussart de Bogeron (1849 – 1921). She took part of the d’Allard family domaine as a dowry, a section known as the Cru Badette d’Allard, and from this small morsel of the estate (with the addition of many other parcels on the Sarpe plateau) Château Haut-Sarpe and eventually Château Clos de Sarpe were created. Eventually Henri and his wife also took control of Château Soutard, and thus the d’Allard era came to an end.
Henri du Foussart de Bogeron and his wife had two children, a daughter Jeanne du Foussart de Bogeron (1882 – 1979) and a son Gabriel du Foussart de Bogeron (1910 – 1981), who assumed the barony after his father’s passing. The estate seems to have come to Jeanne, who married Michel des Lignéris (born 1885) on September 20th 1919. He took over the running of the domaine from 1921, although it remained officially the possession of the Foussart de Bogeron family until his mother-in-law Jeanne’s death in 1979. By this time Michel had long handed over responsibility to his son Jacques des Lignéris, and by 1988 it was under the direction of the next generation, a son François des Lignéris and his two sisters Hélène and Isabelle.
