sentences:  Diane de Poitiers only lived at Chaumont for a short while.In 1594, at the death of Diane's granddaughter Charlotte de la Marck, the château passed to her husband, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon, who sold it to a tax farmer Largentier, who had grown rich on gathering in the salt tax called the "gabelle".Largentier eventually being arrested for peculation, the château and the title of "sieur de Chaumont" passed into a family originating at Lucca, who possessed it until 1667, when it passed by family connections to the seigneurs de Ruffignac.