Chalet de la Compagnie

Historic site and monument
Historic patrimony
19th C

Chalet de la Compagnie, 15 rue du Parc, 03200 Vichy

Photographie, vers 1880 — ©Coll. M. Laval

Carte postale, vers 1910 — ©Coll. M. Laval

Gravure extraite de J.Simon. Vichy et ses environs : album-livre pittoresque, 1858 — ©Fonds patrimoniaux de Vichy

Plan, vers 1898 — ©Archives municipales. Dépôt de la Compagnie de Vichy

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Having owned the Vichy springs since 1523, the French government entrusted their operation to a private company, Compagnie Fermière, in 1853.

The renewal of this company's lease periodically requires it to undertake a programme to modernise and upgrade the spa infrastructure, including parks and entertainment facilities. This spa estate, still operated by a private company, has been owned by the City of Vichy since 2021. The chalet was built in 1857 by the architect Charles Badger to house the directors of the Compagnie Fermière de Vichy. It was also intended as a venue for prominent and influential figures likely to promote the virtues of the thermal spa town, thereby helping to develop Vichy's image as a fashionable resort. In 1867, it received a visit from the Goncourt brothers who described it as, "a garden which is almost nothing more than a trellised dining room, with terracotta medallions of famous persons, excavated by Carrier-Belleuse." Since then, it has undergone several transformations: Compagnie Fermière architect Gustave Simon, a native of Deauville, extended it in the Normandy style in 1898, while Jean-Michel Brouillat, accustomed to designing gourmet restaurants, gave it its current appearance in 2008.