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La Villate-Billon, spelt La Villatte-Billon in the archives, is a former fief in the commune of Saint-Victor-en-Marche, in Creuse, which has a château. In 1550, the fief and its château, ‘which still exists’, belonged to René Brachet, seigneur de Montaigut, who from 1554 onward began to cede rents and rights to Étienne Durieux, seigneur de Villepreaux. In the 17th century, the seigneurie was held by the Durieu family: François Durieu, sieur de La Villatte-Billon, paid homage to the Count of La Marche in 1669. In the 18th century it passed to the Guillon family, including Léonard, lieutenant général criminel at Guéret in 1723, and then Gervais, seigneur from 1753. By that date the château was occupied by a merchant, Valéry Monet. The estate was leased to François Bataille in 1768 and, in 1775, the fiefs of La Villatte-Billon and Villedary were the subject of an aveu et dénombrement (a formal feudal declaration of holdings).