Château du Bruget

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Le château en bref

The Château du Bruget stands in the commune of Jaujac, in the Ardèche, on the left bank of the Lignon, slightly upstream from the village. Its oldest remains, including the southern round tower, date back to the 14th century; the building then underwent several phases of construction and alteration in the 15th and 16th centuries, before being rebuilt by the La Tour de Beins family in the 17th century. The château first belonged to the Bruget family, recorded as early as 1378, then passed by marriage to the Monteil family in 1398. It later came to the Launay family, who sold it in 1780 to Aimé Monteil, a lawyer in Jaujac. Sold as national property (bien national) during the Revolution, it was then converted into a farm. Restoration work carried out in the 1930s by Georges Balaÿ and his two sisters (consolidation of the façade, repair of the windows, reassembly of the great fireplace) saved the building from ruin. The building, rectangular in plan and flanked by two towers to the north and a round tower to the south, retains mullioned windows, loopholes, a 14th-century winding staircase crowned by an umbel vault known as a “Saracen” vault, as well as remarkable fireplaces, including one with columns on the first floor. Registered as a historic monument (inscription) since 1954, the château remains privately owned.