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The Château de Soustra is one of the six private châteaux of Gamarde-les-Bains, in the Chalosse region (Landes). Built in the seventeenth century, it originally served as a viticultural storehouse (caverie). The stone building comprises a rectangular main block flanked by a square tower, once crenellated, added later by the Baron de Behr. The principal façade has five mullioned windows on the first floor, surmounted by two chien-assis dormers that light the attic. The château is the birthplace, on 26 October 1730, of François Soustrar, a professor at the Collège de Dax and then curé of Gamarde from 1764 to 1792, who chose exile in Spain rather than swear the oath to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. It is a private property and is not open to visitors.