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Le château en bref
The château (or logis) de Lafont, in Mérignac in the Charente, belonged in 1576 to Jean Geoffroy, a military captain, before being acquired in the 17th century by François Aigron, whose daughter brought it by marriage to Louis Bernard. From this period survive the moats, fed by a spring, and two round slate-roofed towers flanking the south façade. Passing in the 18th century to the Fé de Ségeville family and then to Jacques Théodore Robin-Beauregard, justice of the peace of the canton of Jarnac, the logis was completely rebuilt around 1870, with the addition of dormer windows and chimneys; a square dovecote and an adjoining pavilion, both now gone, once completed the estate. A private property not open to visitors, it remains one of the fine residences of the canton of Jarnac.