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• THE HISTORY •
Jacques de Malle, President of the Parliament of Bordeaux and the direct ancestor of the family of the Counts of Bournazel, built the Château which is named after him, at the beginning of the 17th Century. Since then the estate has always remained in the hands of the family without ever being expropriated.
Three generations later the estate became the property of Pierre de Malle, Councillor to the King Louis XIV, Lord Chancellor of the Court of Guyenne and a member of the Bordeaux Parliament following the long established family tradition. Last male member of the family carrying this name, he married his daughter, Jeanne, to Alexandre-Eutrope de Lur-Saluces, Baron of Fargues and Count of Uza in 1702... Read more
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