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Le château en bref
At Calamane, west of Cahors in Quercy, the château is a late fifteenth-century residence built on an older seigneury. That lordship first belonged to the Béral family, bankers from Cahors, before passing to the Durfort family through the marriage of Delphine de Béraldy to Raymond de Durfort in 1328. A descendant, Raymond-Bernard de Durfort, took part in the capture of Mercuès in 1426. In the seventeenth century the estate passed to the de Losse family, then to the Pousargues and the Laroche-Lambert families. The Revolution left a deep mark: its towers were levelled, its owner, an émigré, was executed in 1794, and the château was sold as national property, before his widow bought it back in 1796. In 1862 it was acquired by Basile Albert, whose descendants still live there. The rectangular main body is flanked by two large round towers and a Renaissance hexagonal tower housing a spiral staircase, with extensive vaulted cellars and traces of machicolations. The château has been listed as a Monument historique since 29 March 1929.
