Château de Rastignac

The Château de Rastignac is a neoclassical style country house located in La Bachellerie, near Bordeaux in the Dordogne in France.

In 1944, fleeing Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) forces attempted to destroy the Château de Rastignac in retribution against the French Resistance.

The first official White House guide, published in 1962, suggested a link between Hoban's design for the South Portico and Château de Rastignac.

Though James Hoban, the original White House architect, did not visit the region, the third American president, Thomas Jefferson (who had conducted architectural revisions of the White House[3]) did visit the region and met architect Salat earlier, while serving as United States ambassador to France.

[1] Reconstruction of the château's interior spaces was completed in 2003 and it is now divided into seven residential apartments (five for the main building, and two for the former coach house).