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Beaucens Castle, in the Gaves valley (Hautes-Pyrénées), was the principal residence of the viscounts of Castet-Loubon, known as the viscounts of Lavedan, who occupied it mainly before the 15th century. Sacked in 1560 by Catholic troops while its viscount was a Huguenot, it was inhabited in 1643 by the House of Montaut-Bénac. In 1792, the last viscount, Charles Louis Gaspard de Rohan-Rochefort, fled and the castle was set on fire; the earthquake of 1854 then caused the south-west corner tower and part of the enceinte to collapse. The banker and minister Achille Fould acquired it in 1856 and restored it without preventing its ruin. Listed as a monument historique in 1927, the site has hosted the Donjon des Aigles, a birds-of-prey flying park at the foot of the surviving keep, since 1973.