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The Château de Cadillac was built in the town of the same name at the request of Jean-Louis de Nogaret de la Valette is the Duke of Epernon. There was a workroom that domestic colloquially called "mustard", as fears were mood swings of the Duke.

For the building, part of the walled city was razed. It is a witness of the late Renaissance classicism and foreshadowed the seventeenth century. Originally, the castle and two wings around a courtyard on three sides. One wing was dismantled to sell the stones in the eighteenth century.

Seized during the Revolution, he served in prison in the nineteenth century, then a psychiatric hospital before being abandoned after a fire.

It was renovated to become a monument to visit. You can admire including French ceilings and interior shutters painted. On the back is a walk in the garden. Its surface is limited by the fortifications of the city.