Seneschalcy of Armagnac

The title can lead to confusion, given the extreme complexity of feudal divisions, which rarely correspond to so-called 'natural' regions or to others of more recent creation.

The Sénéschaussée d'Armagnac was created by Louis XI in 1473, following the capture of Lectoure and the annexation of the County of Armagnac to the Kingdom of France.

It was supposed to be Auch, but the city was hit by a plague epidemic[2] and Lectoure was finally chosen, an advantage that would enable it to rise from its ruins.

The Seneschaussée building was located at the western corner of today's streets, Nationale and Montebello, on the site of the grain market, which at the time was occupied by the town hall.

All that remains today is a Gothic door with pinnacles and fleurons, and a tympanum decorated with two angels bearing a coat of arms (later hammered out).

The site is occupied by residential houses and, on the Rue Nationale side, by a café, the Café de la Comédie, and a small municipal theater (decorated with paintings by Paul Noël Lasseran, and destroyed by fire in the 1950s), all of which was replaced in the 1960s by a village hall, now a cinema called “Le Sénéchal”.