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The Château de Crabillé, also spelt Crabillier or Crabilhé, is located in Montgesty, in the Lot. The estate belonged to the Bonafous family, a bourgeois family from the Quercy. It was built in the early nineteenth century, around 1804, after houses in the hamlet were demolished. Jean Bonafous, who had married Antoinette Murat in 1784, became a Knight of the Empire. Tradition reports visits by Caroline Bonaparte and Marshal Lannes, but there is no independent confirmation. After Antoinette Murat's death in 1829, the estate declined. Around 1860 it was sold to farmers who converted it into a farm, and it later fell partly into ruin before being bought and restored from 1961 onwards. The mansion, symmetrical in a U-shape, combines a main building with two projecting wings opening onto a raised terrace, reached by an external double-flight staircase, above vaulted undercrofts, under a mansard roof. A dovecote, a barn, a sheepfold and a bread oven complete the ensemble. The façades and roofs of the château, the bread oven, the sheepfold and the dovecote have been listed as monuments historiques since 1 April 1993.