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The Château de Gorce, on the banks of the Transon in Pleuville, in the Confolentais area (Charente), is recorded as a fief of the Fontlebon family as early as 1160, Antoine de Fontlebon being mentioned as lord of Gorce in 1473. Passed down by inheritance to Jean d'Asnière, it was sold as a life annuity (en viager) in 1787 to Jacques du Verrier de Boulzat. Ruins of an early circular keep survive near the pond; the present buildings, arranged in a U, include a gatehouse retaining traces of a drawbridge, a machicolated keep flanked by turrets, a main house with a round tower under a pepper-pot roof and a polygonal stair turret, a Renaissance doorway with pilasters and a coat of arms, as well as outbuildings dating from 1654. Having changed owners several times in the 20th century, it now offers two holiday cottages (“La rose” and “Le papillon”) set up in the former servants' house, with a park, a private pond (swimming, paddleboarding) and access to a nearby golf course.