Chateau de Pennautier
Seventeenth-century wine estate with royal furnishings, grand classical wings and formal gardens.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Château de Pennautier near Carcassonne follows Pierre-Louis Reich de Pennautier, the seventeenth-century financier who collected the French church's money and built these wings. It opens on a receipt found in a dead man's box in Paris, and on the poisoning scandal that pulled a Languedoc banker into its orbit. Along the way you'll meet the Canal du Midi, a royal wool works, and the vines still growing around you. Best heard on the forecourt, facing the long wings.
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