Castle of Brolles, Louis XIII style castle in Bois-le-Roi, France.

The Château de Brolles is a 19th-century neo-Louis XIII mansion at 34 avenue Alfred-Roll in Bois-le-Roi. Its red-brick facade is banded and trimmed with cream stone, with rows of windows and a taller corner tower on the right capped by a steep dark pyramidal roof and finial; a second square tower with a dark roof stands further back. Small balustraded balconies sit on the near tower, and dense green shrubs line the base.

Abel Laurent, a Paris stockbroker, built the château in 1862 under the Second Empire, at a cost of one million francs. It was put up for sale in the 1890s at 200,000 francs and auctioned on 12 June; the Lebaudy family rented it before the estate passed to Millon d'Ailly de Verneuil, syndic of the stockbrokers. From the 1960s it housed a children's sanatorium until 1979, when it became a functional rehabilitation centre for children.

The name Brolles, also recorded as Brezolles, comes from brolium, a place overgrown with scrub. A 1222 act records the hamlet's donkeys and bundles of firewood, exchanged between the monks of Saint-Père and King Philip Augustus. A Protestant temple here drew Swiss guards serving at the Château de Fontainebleau to its services.

The castle now operates as a rehabilitation center and is not open for regular visits from the public. You can observe the building from outside and explore the surrounding grounds and estate features.

The name Brolles, also recorded as Brezolles, comes from the Latin brolium, meaning scrubland. A 1222 act records an exchange between the monks of Saint-Père and King Philip Augustus involving the hamlet's donkeys and faggots of wood. A legend also claims a tunnel once ran under the Seine here.