Château de Tailly, Historical castle in Tailly, France.

Château de Tailly is a French castle featuring a central building with two side wings, crowned by a steeply pitched slate roof and a semicircular pediment at the center pavilion. The main house sits within a larger estate that includes several outbuildings on the property.

Built in the 1730s and 1740s for the Mannay de Camps family, the château stayed in their hands until just after the French Revolution. It passed through several owners in the 19th century. In 1925 Adrien de Hauteclocque bought the estate, with its park and farm, and gave it to his son Philippe, the future Marshal Leclerc, on his marriage. Leclerc's descendants still hold it.

The interior displays wood paneling and painted walls from the 18th and 19th centuries, showing how wealthy families decorated their homes during that era. These details reveal the aesthetic preferences of a time when French estates expressed their owners' social status.

Access to the estate is by a 500-metre tree-lined drive that opens onto a wide lawn in front of the château; the gate is cream-painted metal with scrolled ornament, set between pale stone piers. The château, park and farm are a private property, so visits are not freely self-guided.

One of the outbuildings has a documented connection to Marshal Leclerc, a key French military leader in World War II. A barn on the grounds displays an exhibition about his life and military achievements during the war.