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Le château en bref
The Château de Clavières, at Velzic in the Cantal, was built around 1630, with a pavilion added around 1660. In the 17th century, Pierre de Gagnac (or Gaignac) was its lord; his daughter Marguerite married Jean-Antoine del Cros de Bérail. The estate then passed to the Apchin family: Jean Apchin died there in 1680, his sons Basile and Guillaume inherited it in 1688, and Antoine Apchin, son of Basile, was still its lord in 1721. In the 19th century, Doctor Jean-Antoine Capelle de Puechjean (1813–1897), mayor of Velzic, lived there with his two successive wives. A building typical of the bourgeois residences of the Cantal, it features a broad central pediment framed by two windows with gable-shaped pediments; its façades and roofs have been protected on the supplementary inventory of historic monuments since 29 December 1978.