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The Château de Saint-Élix-le-Château, in the Comminges region, is a Renaissance building erected between 1540 and 1548 by the Toulouse architect Laurent Clary for Pierre Potier, capitoul of Toulouse. It consists of a square central pavilion flanked by four round towers, with brick façades, mullioned windows and abundant sculpted decoration. The Revolution saw the towers, battlements and roofs demolished and the moats filled in; a fire in 1945 destroyed a storey within the attic. It was one of the residences of the Marquise de Montespan. It is privately owned and has been protected as a monument historique since 1927, with its park and outbuildings listed in 1994.