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The Château de la Devèze, in Quissac (Gard), occupies a site first mentioned in 1375 under the name 'mas de Villasses', then worked by tenant farmers of the Devèze family who raised sheep and carded wool. Bought back in 1660 by Hercule Duranc de Vézénobres, the estate became part of the barony of Sauve before passing by marriage to the counts of Banne d'Avéjan. The de Fesquet family, owners from the eighteenth century onwards, probably had the present main house built and the park laid out; the south wing and an agricultural building for wine-making were added at the beginning of the nineteenth century, together with an underground cistern designed on the advice of Abbé Paramelle, a celebrated water diviner. Passed by the marriage of Marguerite de Fesquet in 1907 to the Amidieu du Clos family, and then to the Ducastel family in 1997, the estate remains a private property not open to visitors.