Château de Brax

En un regard

Le château en bref

Built between 1346 and 1356 by the nobleman Arnaud du Faya, to whom Count Jean de l'Isle-Jourdain had ceded the lands, the château de Brax then passed to the Montfort family and, in the 16th and 17th centuries, to the Ducos and Seysses families. Tradition holds that Henri IV visited around 1600, and a room in the tower still bears his name. The tower, the keep and the chapel disappeared in August 1789. Bought by the Pins-Montbrun family and then by the Polastron de la Hillière family (1613–1784), then by the Hérisson family (1784–1847), it returned to the Pins family in 1861 before passing to the Cousin family (1941) and to the architect Jean-Louis Marie Gilet (1950). Since 1967, the château has been occupied by the ASEI, first as a centre for auditory and speech rehabilitation and then, since 2000, as a Maison d'Accueil Spécialisée (MAS), a specialised residential care home for adults with disabilities.