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The Château de Cardet (Gard) has been held by the same family since the fourteenth century until its recent restoration, an exceptional continuity of seven centuries. The neighbouring Protestant temple, which survived the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, witnessed the baptism in 1681 of the Camisard leader Jean Cavalier, whose parents had married there in 1678. The present main building, constructed in the eighteenth century over some 1,100 m² and four storeys, is distinguished by a monumental staircase in the Italian style, decorated with stucco and mythological bas-reliefs, as well as by an exceptional panoramic wallpaper attributed to the Réveillon manufactory. In the nineteenth century, at the height of the silk industry, the estate operated a silkworm nursery (magnanerie). Listed as a monument historique since 1993, the 7-hectare estate today comprises a former silkworm nursery converted into a reception hall, an orangery, a library on three levels in a tower, a dovecote and a Palladian-style swimming pool, set in an English-style landscape park with rare species of trees.