Château de Saint-Martial

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Le château en bref

The Château de Saint-Martial, in Saint-Martial-de-Nabirat in the Dordogne, was founded in 1545 by Jean Calvimont, who had become lord of the place; his descendants enlarged it over two centuries, until Jean VII received confirmation of his title of baron in 1666. On 6 and 7 December 1790, in the wake of the peasant revolts that set the region ablaze — four kilometres on from the burning of the Château du Repaire — some 4,000 to 5,000 insurgents attacked and destroyed the château, deliberately targeting the emblems of the powerful Calvimont family. No intact structure survives today, but some of its remains are said to be hidden within houses on the Place de la Vierge; stones from the ruins were reused in the construction of the departmental road in 1889.