Château de Montferrier

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Le château en bref

In Saint-Geyrac, in the Périgord Blanc, the Château de Montferrier owes its origin to a transaction dated 24 April 1685, by which Jean-François d'Abzac de la Douze ceded his possessions in the parish to Jacques Delpy, king's counsellor and receiver of the tailles of Périgueux. Delpy had a high-roofed manor house built there, on an estate of about a hundred hectares, complemented by a Louis XIII pavilion and outbuildings; it was completed around 1700 and is reached by a long tree-lined avenue overlooking a small valley. It remained in the Delpy family until 1813 — Guillaume Delpy having managed, through skilful concessions, to preserve the estate during the Revolution — then passed to the Gaillard-Lacombe family and, since 1964, to the Count and Countess de Hennezel. The Gaillard-Lacombe family were behind the donation to Périgueux Cathedral of a 14th-century Venetian panel attributed to Simone di Filippo, listed as a monument historique in 2000.