Château de l'Oisellerie

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Le château en bref

The Château de l'Oisellerie, at La Couronne near Angoulême (Charente), stands on a site whose lands belonged from as early as 1267 to the Abbey of La Couronne, having been ceded by Hugues de Lusignan, Count of La Marche and Angoulême. Around 1500 the estate passed to the Calluau family of Angoulême, who kept it for nearly two centuries: Arnauld Calluau, mayor of Angoulême in 1498, had the first château built there after his marriage in 1516; his son Guillaume was also mayor, and his grandson François enlarged and fortified it in the mid-16th century. Financial difficulties forced Jean Calluau to sell it in 1678 to Jean Duthier, king's counsellor and seneschal; the de Maulde family subsequently restored it. Dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, the building has housed the Oisellerie agricultural high school since 1900, as well as a departmental educational documentation centre of the French national education system (Éducation nationale).