En un regard
Le château en bref
The Château d'Aiguillon, on the place du 14-Juillet, replaced two 13th-century fortresses that controlled the confluence of the Lot and the Garonne: Lunac, besieged in 1346, and Le Fossat, which passed to the Montpezat family and then to Honorat de Savoie. Having become royal property, the site came into the possession of the Duke of Aiguillon, who decided in 1760 to build a new château there. The works, entrusted first to André Mollié and then to Charles Le Roy, took place from 1765 to 1780: the central block in 1773–1777, and the Pavillon de la Comédie in 1778–1780. Classical in plan, with a cour d'honneur and a service forecourt, it bears pediments carved with allegories of the Arts and Sciences by Barthélemy Cabirol. The north wing was never built. Declared national property (bien national) after the Duke's emigration in 1792, and restored in 1964–1966 by Jean Payen, it now houses the Lycée Stendhal.