Château de Londigny (Château du Peu)

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Le château en bref

The Château de Londigny, known as the Château du Peu, stands on the Peu hill at Londigny (Charente), overlooking the Péruse valley. A small 15th-century gentilhommière (manor house) held by the Jousserand family for about 160 years, it passed in 1657 to Casimir Prévost (de Sansac de Touchimbert) through his marriage to Marie de Robillard, and then remained in that family until the end of the 19th century. Through the marriage of Louise Prévost de Sansac de Touchimbert to the Marquis de Lameth in 1872, the estate passed to the Lameth family, who undertook major enlargement works (between 1870 and 1906, depending on the source) in an eclectic Neo-Gothic, Baroque and Renaissance style inspired by Viollet-le-Duc, financed by the sale of a rum distillery in Martinique; only a 16th-century round tower survives from the earlier building. The 15-hectare landscaped park retains an equestrian statue of Casimir Prévost (1912) and a monument to Joan of Arc erected by the Marquis de Lameth in memory of his two daughters. Managed from 2011 to 2024 by the Société du Château des Chevaliers de Londigny, the estate has belonged to an Australian couple since 2024.