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Le château en bref
Blauzac Castle (Gard), a castrum first mentioned in 1136, was ceded by the Count of Toulouse to the Bishop of Uzès in 1209. It was probably rebuilt between 1353 and 1355, when the King of France granted the lordship to Pierre de Deaux, a relative of Cardinal Bertrand de Deaux, a papal dignitary at Avignon. Set on fire by the Tuchins around 1382, at the same time as the church, it passed in the 17th and 18th centuries to the Arbaud family (Jean d'Arbaud renounced Protestantism in 1684), and was divided up among several owners after the Revolution. It has a quadrilateral plan around an almost square inner courtyard. It retains a north-west corner tower with rusticated masonry, which predates the rest of the building, Renaissance windows, 18th-century galleries and staircases, and a central well. Now a restored private property, it offers three apartments for seasonal rental (4 to 6 people each) and can be hired year-round for family holidays, corporate seminars, receptions, and photo and video shoots, exhibitions and concerts, set around a shady courtyard with a centenarian fig tree and a swimming pool.