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The Château de Venzac, in Mur-de-Barrez, has a remarkable garden and is partially listed in the inventory of historic monuments (façades, roofs, chapel, outbuildings, staircase and the stone fireplace of the ground-floor drawing room). A noble family of Venzac is recorded as early as the 12th century, but it is the de Gaches family, originally from Aurillac and settled in Mur-de-Barrez before 1543, that dominates its history: Louis de Gaches, ennobled by Louis XIV (died 1668), François de Gaches de Venzac (1649-1698), Jean Guillaume de Gaches de Venzac, lord of Venzac (1697-1766), then Pierre de Gaches de Venzac (1769-1825), admitted to the military school in 1784 alongside Bonaparte. Marie de Gaches married Guillaume-Jean-Philippe de Verdier, whose son became lord of the Château de Valon. The family's coat of arms appears on the present town hall of Mur-de-Barrez. The line has since died out. Not to be confused with the Château de Veuzac, near Villefranche-de-Rouergue.