The Château de Font-Ségugne is a historic

château A château (, ; plural: châteaux) is a manor house, or palace, or residence of the lord of the manor, or a fine country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally, and still most frequently, in French-speaking re ...

built at Font-Ségugne in

Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne (; ) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. History The ''Félibrige'' was founded in Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne, at Font-Ségugne, in 1854. Geography Ch� ...

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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 13th and 14th centuries, although some authorities count Mont-de-Marsan and Montauban, which was founded in 1144, as the first bastides ...

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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, 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 Paul Giéra (22 January 1816 – 26 April 1861) was a French Provençal poet. Early life Paul Giéra was born on 22 January 1816 in Avignon. Death He died on 26 April 1861 in his hometown of Avignon. Legacy The Collège Paul Giéra in Avignon w ...

formed the ''

'' movement with fellow poets

Frédéric Mistral Joseph Étienne Frédéric Mistral (; , 8 September 1830 – 25 March 1914) was an Occitan writer and lexicographer of the Provençal form of the language. He received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of the fresh origina ...

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 Théodore Aubanel ( Occitan:''Teodòr Aubanèu''; 26 March 1829 – 2 November 1886) was a Provençal poet. He was born in Avignon in a family of printers. Aubanel started writing poetry in French but quickly switched to Provençal, due to the ...

Jean Brunet Jean Brunet (27 December 1822 – 23 October 1894) was a French Provençal poet. Early life Brunet was born on 27 December 1822 in Avignon, in Provence, France.Charles Pierre Julian, ''Anthologie du Félibrige provençal (1850 à nos jours) po ...

Anselme Mathieu Anselme Mathieu (21 April 1828 – 8 February 1895) was a French Provençal poet. Early life Anselme Mathieu was born 21 April 1828 in Châteauneuf-du-Pape. His parents were the fourth-generation owners of the Domaine Mathieu, a vineyard still ...

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 fift ...

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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