Château de Fonbeauzard

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Le château en bref

First mentioned in 1463, when it was acquired by Louis Du Bourg, a wealthy merchant and capitoul of Toulouse, the Château de Fonbeauzard owes its appearance in the seventeenth century to Philippe André de Forest, a councillor in the parlement under Louis XIII. He had a château built with outbuildings and laid out a walled garden, which gave its name to the district of ‘l’Enclos’. The estate passed to the Du Tournoir family (1515–1596), then to the Forest de Carlincar family (from 1606) and the Malaret family (from 1732), who raised it to a barony in 1738. The château retains a secret passage built during the White Terror of 1815, and local tradition associates it with the tale of an ‘English ghost’ linked to the passage of British troops during Napoleon’s retreat of 1814.