Dordogne

Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Château de l’Herm

When Nicolas de Laâge de Meux bought it in 2020, the Château de l'Herm, in the Dordogne, had stood without roofs or floors for nearly two centuries. Yet this Flamboyant Gothic house, built in a single campaign in the early 16th century, had kept the heart of its beauty: its entrance, its great…

Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Château de Montastruc

Montastruc, from the Latin monte astrucus, is the hill under a lucky star: a rocky spur near Bergerac, lived on since antiquity, where caves sit beside a late 13th-century Gothic château and its Louis XV wing in Bordeaux-style stone. Its 1475 roof frame and 18th-century interiors have survived…

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Château de Fénelon

François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon, author of The Adventures of Telemachus, was born in 1651 in this fortified castle in the Périgord Noir, and the bed he was born in has never left it. The last Cathar refuge in the area in the 13th century, rebuilt and reshaped until the 1600s, Fénelon has…

Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Château de Puymartin

Never sold since it was rebuilt around 1450, at the end of the Hundred Years' War, Puymartin raises its storybook towers in the Périgord Noir, a few kilometers from Sarlat. This Dordogne château keeps a mythological cabinet painted in 1679, one of the few in France, 17th-century tapestries and the…

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Château de Fayolle

Nothing has moved at Fayolle since the last marquis left: ashes in the fireplaces, linens tied and labeled, spare rolls of wallpaper, a private theater from Napoleon's Consulate. Built in 1766 on medieval foundations by Nicolas II de Fayolle, this Dordogne château stayed for more than two centuries…

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Château de Losse

Losse has been reborn twice. Around 1570, Jean II de Losse, captain of the Scots Guard and governor of Périgord, turned a stronghold on the Vézère River into a pleasure house. In the 20th century, Guy and Jacqueline Van der Schueren found it smothered in ivy and gave it back its splendor. Behind…

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Château de Tiregand

Nearly two centuries of life in one family, from the La Panouses to the Saint-Exupérys, left Tiregand with wallpapers from every period, Beethoven scores and a workshop whose machines still run. An 18th-century house largely rebuilt in the 19th century in an English Gothic Revival style, it…

Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Château de Bridoire

Bridoire has two stories: a 12th-century fortress that became a Protestant stronghold and then the home of the Foucauld family, and a château looted for thirty years after a company tied to Emperor Bokassa bought it in 1978. Seized by the French state, the château stands on a spur among the…