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Le château en bref
In Cressensac-Sarrazac, in the north of the Lot near the border with the Corrèze, the Château de Chausseneige stands on lands already mentioned in 936, when Viscount Gaubert des Échelles gave them to the Abbey of Beaulieu. The fief first belonged to the Galvanh family, then to the Maynards from the 15th century until the Revolution, when the château was placed under sequestration. In the 19th century it passed by inheritance to the Maynards and the Goudin de Pauliac family. Baron de Maynard then restored it in a neo-Gothic style inspired by Viollet-le-Duc, a campaign completed around 1897. The château is arranged in a U-shape around an enclosed courtyard, with a square tower-chapel, crenellated walls, machicolations, corner turrets and a 17th-century pavilion; to the north-west, a screen wall serves in place of a feudal tower. Around 1980, the last of the family's four daughters bequeathed it to a resident of the village. It today houses the headquarters of several companies, including a flight training school.