Château de Mounet-Sully

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Le château en bref

On the wooded heights overlooking Bergerac, the Château de Mounet-Sully was not born of a princely commission but of the dream of a local boy who became the greatest tragic voice of the Comédie-Française. Jean-Sully Mounet, a native of Bergerac, had a setting made to his own measure built there from 1880 onwards: an imagined Romanesque keep, a sculpted cloister, a private theatre where the verses of Racine and Hugo still resounded. The ensemble freely mixes periods, from the 16th-century main residence to the late-19th-century Byzantine mosaics, more like a personal stage design than a scholarly architecture. Today a hotel and reception venue nestled in a four-hectare park, the estate continues to welcome guests in the very rooms where the actor received his artist friends.