Logis de Forge

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Le château en bref

The Logis de Forge, in Mouthiers-sur-Boëme, some ten kilometres south of Angoulême, takes its name from a site attested as early as 1233 in the cartulary of the Abbey of La Couronne. A dependency of the castellany of La Rochandry in the 14th–15th centuries, and used alternately as an iron mill, a flour mill and a walnut-oil mill until the 18th century, it was acquired in 1781 by Bernard Sazerac, who set up a paper mill there, supplemented in the 19th century by drying buildings and workers' housing. The logis, adorned with square towers with pyramidal roofs, vaulted cellars and a spiral staircase, retains a monumental 15th-century fireplace and a painted drapery from the Revolutionary period. The film Pontcarral was shot there in 1941. Privately owned by the de Beaucé family since 1969 and restored in 1970, it is not open to visitors, but its gardens and water features, designated a « Jardin remarquable » (Remarkable Garden), are open to the public in season.