Château de Laly

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The Château de Laly is a former manor house located in the commune of Le Montet, in the Allier department. The site is attested as a fortified house (maison forte) from the early 16th century: a feudal declaration of March 1505 mentions the seigneury, then shared between Gaspard le Bret, lord of Bellabre and Gramont, holder of high, middle and low justice, and Françoise de Rousset. The property remained for many years in the hands of the Gaulmyn family, jurists attached to the House of Bourbon, before passing to the Camus family. The present building, extensively altered in the 19th century, consists of a rectangular main block (corps de logis) of two storeys plus an attic level, flanked at its corners by two square pavilions. The symmetrically arranged openings are topped by segmental-arched lintels, and the whole is covered by a pavilion roof pierced with dormer windows. The château remains privately owned; it is not open to visitors but can be seen from the road.