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The Logis de la Lèche, in Touvre, eight kilometres east of Angoulême, gave its name to the Font de la Lèche, one of the springs of the Touvre, which rises at its foot. A noble house of the des Ages family between 1480 and the early 17th century, it was rebuilt in its present form at the end of the 17th century by Antoine Debord; a chapel, now gone, was added in the 18th century before being abandoned during the Revolution. It passed to the Guimard and then the Deval families (1704-1741), and remained in the Deval family, and then by marriage in the Mathé-Dumaine family, until 1920. Built on a rectangular east-west plan under a tiled broken-pitch (mansard) roof, flanked by two pavilions and provided with a covered stone well with columns, the manor, its well and its gateway are listed as historic monuments. Converted into a farm after 1950, it was sold in the 1990s and remains a private property not open to visitors, visible from the road.