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Origin and history

The castle of Saint-Sulpice, located in the Lot department, was originally a 13th century fortress built by the Hebron family of Saint-Sulpice to protect their possessions in the Célé valley. This fief, close to the abbey of Saint-Pierre de Marcilhac-sur-Célé, was reportedly acquired by the Hebrons, a line of which the oldest known member, Géraud d'Hébrard, was from Cajarc. In 1250 William Hebron, lord of the place, built an Augustinian monastery and used Saracen slaves to cultivate his land.

In the 16th century, John III Hebrard of Saint-Sulpice and his wife Claude de Gontaut-Biron modernized the medieval castle into a Renaissance residence. Their descendants had a tragic fate: their three sons died violently between 1573 and 1587, leaving their daughter Catherine to inherit the estate. She married Pons de Lauzières in 1587, thus transmitting the castle to the Crussol family of Uzès at the beginning of the seventeenth century, which left him abandoned.

Sold as a national property in 1790 during the Revolution, the castle was dismantled to serve as a stone quarry. In the 19th century, a seaside villa was built there by the family La Noue (Hébrard branch), before being destroyed in 1982. Today, only remains of historical monuments remain in 1988, witnesses to its prestigious and tormented past.

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