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Le château en bref
The Château de Mainsat, in the commune of Mainsat (Creuse), is said to have been the birthplace, at the end of the 12th century, of Raoul de La Roche-Aymon, later Bishop of Agen and then Archbishop of Lyon, in a medieval building that predated the present château. The entrance porch and the adjoining wing, flanked by two bartizans, date from the 16th and 17th centuries. The park and the orangery were rebuilt around 1888, before the garden was restored and transformed between 1930 and 1950 for Cardinal de Kernier by the landscape designer Marguerite Charageat, who recreated a medieval-inspired garden there. The main residential building was in turn altered between 1953 and 1960 through the installation of reused elements (dormer windows, windows) of various origins. The porch and the tower were listed as historic monuments (inscrits) by decree of 4 April 1963, and the park by decree of 18 March 1991 (amended on 29 September 1997).