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Le château en bref
The Château de Montcalm, in the commune of Vestric-et-Candiac (Gard) — often called the Château de Candiac locally — was built in the 16th century and first belonged to the marquisate of Calvisson. It then passed to the families de Buade and Bérard de Tarabias, then to the marquis de Grave and the marquise de Thoiras. In 1730, Louis-Joseph de Saint-Véran, marquis de Montcalm, acquired it on the occasion of his marriage to Louise-Talon du Boulay. It was on this estate that he was born in 1712 and lived, before dying in 1759 at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham while defending New France against the English. A statue of Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, the work of the sculptor Léopold Morice (1910), stands before the entrance to the château, which is today listed as a historic monument and is privately owned.