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Le château en bref
Château de La Valette, built on a hillside in the Vallon des Issartines at Bez-et-Esparon (Gard), is first attested in 1254 as a property of Raymonde d'Esparon; the site may correspond to the castrum Exunatis, the administrative seat in the 9th century of the viguerie of Arisitum. The lordship passed by marriage in 1724 to Charles de Bérenger de Caladon, then was acquired in 1760 by the marquises de Barral d'Arènes, in 1773 by the jurist Jacques-Louis Aguze of Vigan, and finally in 1854 by the Coupier family, who have held it ever since. During the Camisard War, Louis XIV's dragoons besieged the château and levelled its three towers and its keep to roof height. The present building combines two Renaissance wings joined by a 19th-century construction.