Château de Montgarnaud

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Le château en bref

The Château de Montgarnaud is an early 18th-century gentilhommière (small manor house) located in the commune of Neuvy, in the Allier department. The present building, flanked by two round corner towers, occupies the site of an older and larger fortress, of which former moats survive. One of the towers, once a dovecote, is topped by a small lantern pierced with eight round-arched openings; a 16th-century well bearing a coat of arms is also preserved on the estate. The seigneury of Montgarnaud belonged successively to the Breschard, Confay, Beauvoir and Clusor families, then to Jean de Thory, who was its lord in 1412. At the end of the 15th century, the estate passed to Antoine Minard, treasurer-general of the Bourbonnais and Auvergne. It then had several notable owners connected with the legal world of Moulins: Toussaint Brirot, councillor at the bailliage court, around 1670; Jean Perron, councillor, around 1730; Jean Lequin de Saint-Ange, lawyer at the Parlement, around 1765; and Étienne Baraba, notary in Moulins, around 1760. The castle is now owned by private individuals.