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The Château de Terride, located in Labourgade en Tarn-et-Garonne, came into being in the 13th century when the family of Terride, seigneur of Penneville, erected a first building there between 1320 and 1330. This castle, named in homage to the lineage and to an old family castle destroyed near Cologne, was partially rebuilt in the 15th century and then redesigned in the 16th century for more comfort. His history is marked by figures such as Raymond-Jourdain de Terride, founder, and Antoine de Lomagne, distinguished by François I during a visit in 1540, who offers him land to reward his services during the Italian wars.

In the 16th century, the Wars of Religion divided the family of Terride: Géraud, joined to Protestantism, killed his Catholic brothers and destroyed the Abbey of Belleperche before being killed during the siege of his castle by Honorat II of Savoie. This event marks the end of the older branch of the family. The castle then passed into the hands of the Lévis-Mirepoix, then Maxilian of Bethune in 1639, before being acquired by personalities such as Jean-Denis Lanjunnais (revolutionary MP) and Jacques Alexandre Law de Lauriston (aide de camp de Napoléon I). In the 19th century, the Magres family, including archaeologist Jane Dieulafoy, restored it between 1861 and 1887.

The architecture of the castle, of rectangular shape girded with moat, combines medieval elements (square towers, archères) with Renaissance arrangements (sleeps, adorned fireplace). The estate, today hotel with golf and swimming pool, extends over 92 hectares including wood and lake. Since 2019, it has maintained traces of its successive transformations, such as a castral chapel and a gallery mentioned in 1549. Its violent siege in 1573, during the Wars of Religion, partially destroyed its southern front, before its restoration by Théodore Magre in 1861.

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