In the year 1955, Manuel Gonzalez de Andia y Talleyrand Périgord, duke of Dino, fell in love with La Chatonniere and bought it. He restored  the inside of the castle making it suitable for habitation. The 7th duke of Talleyrand, his uncle, ibherited numerous relics belonging to the Prince of Benevent, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord, the duke of Dino.
Thirty years later  his  daughter, Beatrice de Andia, completely transformed  the essence of the estate, abandoning agriculture for tourism and culture, thereby creating creating a paradise of flowers, for the glory of Touraine, the Garden of France.

Back home at La Chatonnière, Beatrice de Andia was apponited the General Director of  VMF, an association promoting the conservation of private historical monuments.  She was invited to lecture on the Environment and on Historical Monuments.  When Jacques Chirac was elected Mayor of Paris, for 30 years she became General director of the Artistic Action of the city of Paris.
Francois Mitterrand, in 1991, and Jacques Chirac, in 2008, Presidents of the French Republic, decorated Beatrice de Andia, to become an Officer of the Order of the Legion of Honour and Commander of the Ordre National du Merite.

In 2006 Beatrice de Andia founded the Observatoire du Patrimoine Religieux, an association whose object is the preservation of the architectural religious heritage of France.