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Le château en bref
The Château du Mazeau stands about one kilometre east of the village of Rempnat, on the Millevaches plateau (Haute-Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine). This fortified Renaissance residence of the 16th century features corner turrets, shell motifs decorating the entrance and the windows, and a roof frame shaped like an upturned boat's hull. The estate originally had moats and formal gardens, now vanished, as well as outbuildings including a bread oven and a dovecote. German troops destroyed important 16th-century furnishings there during the Second World War. The building may have reused stones from the former château de Murat, in the neighbouring commune of Tarnac, probably destroyed during the Hundred Years' War. A privately owned property managed by a société civile immobilière, it is listed as a monument historique; the dovecote and the water system benefit from a separate listing.