Château de la Roche Courbon

[2] A castle was built around 1475 by Jehan de Latour, on site which had been inhabited since prehistoric times.

The interior of the château contains decor from the 17th century, in particular a bathroom covered with painted wood panels and sculptures from 1662,[4] The château has a jardin à la française, redone in 1936–1939, featuring a terrace with an Italian gallery, a monumental stairway, a parterre with four compartments and a fountain, topiary, and statues.

The gardens were laid out on marshes, and in addition to drainage improvements it was necessary to support part of them on deep piles driven through the marshland to the sandstone bedrock; these required considerable and very costly attention in the 1930s refurbishment and again in the 1990s.

In the grounds are some Stone Age cave dwellings, at the base of sandstone cliffs, in woodland close by the river Bruant.

On his excursions, he (re)discovered the Château de la Rochecourbon, in an abandoned and ruined state, overgrown with brushwood.