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The Château de Caillac (or Calhac), at Vézac in the Cantal, is mentioned as early as the 10th century in the will of Agnès de Mels; Géraud de Reilhac was its lord in 1004, followed by Bertrand de Calhac in 1302. Bought by Thomas d'Orbec, it was resold in 1483 to François Chaumeilh, ennobled in 1486 by Charles VIII, whose son François II became governor of Boulogne in 1574. Having then passed through Marguerite de Chaumeil (around 1570), François de Buisson de Bournazel (who sold half of it in 1657), Gaspard-Joseph de Bochâtel (died 1742) and his descendants, then Albert de Malet de La Farge, who sold it to M. Marty in 1869, the estate fell to Pierre and Félix Marty and later to the Stehelin family. The château combines two main residential wings set at right angles and a large round corner tower, with a façade of Renaissance arrangement and a straight staircase of the period; a farm and a mill complete the estate. The magnificent park with its arboretum was laid out in particular by the naturalist Pierre Marty (1868–1940). Long abandoned, the château and park were renovated in the 1970s and 1980s; the château, listed (inscrit) as a historic monument since 10 November 1997, is not open to visitors.