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Le château en bref
The Logis de la Charlotterie, in Fontcouverte in Charente-Maritime, dates from around 1520, despite an erroneous attribution to the 14th century that is sometimes put forward. Renovated and enlarged in 1609 by the Farnoulx family, as attested by the dated inscription "Jonnes Defarnoulx", it passed to Amaury de Farnoulx in 1643 in a family partition. Jean-Baptiste Dohet, married in Bordeaux in 1700, became its owner and would be a councillor at the présidial court of Saintes in 1713; homage was paid to the king for neighbouring fiefs in 1722, and the last representative of the Dohet line testified in its favour in 1779. Having passed in 1880 to the Marquis de Beaucorps, the manor then underwent a major but rather clumsy restoration owing to its advanced state of decay; owners subsequently followed one another without the records keeping a clear trace of them. The building consists of two small adjoining residential wings linked by a square stair tower, and features a 19th-century carriage gateway inspired by a 17th-century model as well as a bretèche protecting the main entrance. Privately owned, it is not open to visitors.