Château d'Empeaux

En un regard

Le château en bref

Probably built at the end of the 16th century by the Lambès family, the Château d'Empeaux then passed to the Cathala/Catellan families and, in the first half of the 18th century, to the Doujat family. Gabriel Bonaventure Doujat (1686–1747), councillor of the Parlement of Toulouse, became the first Baron of Empeaux in 1740, a title the family retained until its extinction in 2002. The estate then passed to Isidore Lautier, a Toulouse jeweller who restored it in a neo-medieval style at the end of the 19th century, followed by Étienne Mathieu, Béranger Alaux (1893–1957), Dr Jean Secail (around 1980) and, since 1991, the Gelis family. It remains a private property.