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Le château en bref
Varennes Castle, near Chambon-sur-Lac (Puy-de-Dôme), was the seat of a medieval lordship lying between Murol and Chambon, with a castral motte overlooking the lake. The Montaigut family, vassals of the counts of Clermont, held it in the 13th century (Étienne in 1256, Hugues II paying homage in 1327). It then passed to the Rochefort family, to Jacques Le Loup (1478), to Jean Drulhon (1498), to the d'Albiat family, and finally to Gabriel d'Estaing (1543). Only ruins remain; abandonment probably occurred after 1497 or during the Wars of Religion.