It is the count Charles-François Leblanc de Manarval, a blacksmith and director of the royal cloth factory in Châteauroux, who had the château built in 1759. During a short period, from 1818 to 1826, it was property of Talleyrand.

In 1917 Henri Viguier, the director of a Parisian department store, and his wife Renée bought Bouges in 1917. Renée had the château tastefully redecorated and refurnished while her husband, a keen horseman, took care of the outbuildings. They donated the property to the French state in 1968.

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