Puits Henri IV

This Renaissance well, the only vestige of Odet de Foix's castle, built in the 16th century and destroyed in the 18th century, was built by the Marshal of Saint-André who had bought the castle in 1549 and created a garden and park around the building, which was embellished by this small construction. At the corners of a hexagonal curbstone rise fluted Doric columns on the upper two thirds. They support an entablature whose frieze bears roses and a sword cutting the knots of a cable, illustration of the motto inscribed on a banner: Nodos virtute resolvo - (value overcomes difficulties). On the ledge's protrusions are vases. A dome of ashlar with scales supports a tempietto on a square base with ionic columns. The date 1551 is engraved in a block surmounted by a carved group depicting a figure sitting on a monster.

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