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Le château en bref
Château La Planche, on the left bank of the Marmande near the medieval village of Charenton-du-Cher, is said to take its name from a plank (planche) once laid across the river ford. The oldest surviving deed, dated 20 January 1440, records the donation of the "hôtel de La Planche" by Bérault, Dauphin of Auvergne, to Guillaume Granier. The estate belonged to the Barbarin family at the end of the 16th century (their coat of arms is visible on the former entrance gate), then passed in turn to Jean Després (1704), Pierre Martinet de la Croze (1712), the Foucher family (1781) and Nicolas Gosset (1814). In the 19th century, the Gosset descendants undertook extensive alterations that gave the château its present appearance, with an English-style landscape park. As a private property, the château is not open to visitors.