The Château de Font-Ségugne is a historic

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built at Font-Ségugne in Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne,

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. It is the location of a former

bastide Bastides are fortified new towns built in medieval Languedoc, Gascony, Aquitaine, England and Wales during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, although some authorities count Mont-de-Marsan and Montauban, which was founded in 1144, as the fir ...

built in the 15th century for a

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cardinal. It was the birthplace of the ''

Félibrige The ''Félibrige'' (; in classical Occitan, in Mistralian spelling, ) is a literary and cultural association founded in 1854 by Frédéric Mistral and other Provençal writers to defend and promote the Occitan language (also called the ) and ...

'' in the 1850s. Nowadays, it is a winery.

Location

It is located on the Cancabèu (Campbeau)

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in Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne,

, Southern France.Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne: Félibrige
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History

15th-century house

In the 15th century, a

was built for an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.Maurice Pezet, ''Le Ventoux et le comtat venaissin'', Fernand Lanore, Paris, 1977, p. 2

/ref> It later belonged to the Dukes of Gadagne.Cinquantenaire de Font-Ségugne

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, October 2010

Birthplace of the Félibrige

The bastide belonged to Marie-Pierre d'Alcantara Goujon (1770–1840), a wealthy philanthropist who served as the Mayor of Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne from 1813 to 1816.Pays des Sorgues: Le plateau de Campbeau
/ref> He had no children and bequeathed it to the Giéra family in the 19th century. On 21 May 1854, Paul Giéra formed the ''

'' movement with fellow poets

Frédéric Mistral Joseph Étienne Frédéric Mistral (; oc, Josèp Estève Frederic Mistral, 8 September 1830 – 25 March 1914) was a French writer of Occitan literature and lexicographer of the Provençal form of the language. He received the 1904 Nobel ...

Joseph Roumanille Joseph Roumanille (; 8 August 1818 – 24 May 1891) was a Provençal poet. He was born at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), and is commonly known in southern France as the father of the Félibrige, for he first conceived the idea of r ...

, Théodore Aubanel, Jean Brunet, Anselme Mathieu and

Alphonse Tavan Alphonse Tavan (9 March 1833 – 12 May 1905) was a French Provençal poet. Early life Tavan was born in 1833 in Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne. He published a collection of romantic poems in Provençal, ''Amour e plour'', in 1876. He attended the fif ...

here.

Château

The château was built in 1860.

Wine

The estate produces wine.Gadagne: Château de Fontségugne
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References

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