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Le château en bref
The Château de Bégus, in Vabres in the Cantal, was built in part in the first half of the 15th century, then completed and restored in the modern period. Originally the property of the Jouvenroux family, it then passed through several hands – Jean de Méallet and the nobleman Blandin de La Roche (1603), Pierre de Beauverger (1631), Jean de Montvallat, then Jean de Scorailles, Balthazar Gillet (1685) – before M. Podevigne de Grandval completed its construction in 1690. Received as a dowry by M. de Labro in 1801, it was later obtained through an exchange by the Grand Séminaire de Saint-Flour in the 19th century. The château consists of a main residence flanked, at the centre of the façade, by a round tower pierced with arrow slits, and a small square tower at the rear, on two storeys covered with dormer roofs; a planted terrace bordered by ashlar walls stands in front of the building, extended by avenues and an ornamental garden overlooking a small valley.