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Dilhac Manor House is a group of manorial buildings located in Montvert, in the Cantal, whose oldest elements – farm dwellings – date back to the late 15th century. The manor house proper was built in 1627, while the barn-cowshed dates from the 17th century; the whole was remodelled in the 19th century and completed in 1856 by a fourniole (small bake house). Built of granite and lauzes (stone slabs), the estate combines influences from the Châtaigneraie, with its separate and superimposed elements, and from the Salers area, with its massive architecture and sturdy materials. In the 18th century it belonged to Pierre Caylus (1746–1824), procurator at the présidial court of Aurillac, whose daughter brought it as a dowry to the lawyer Louis-Furcy Grognier – who would later become mayor of Aurillac and, in 1847, purchase the Château Saint-Étienne in order to found the town's teacher-training college (école normale d'instituteurs) there.