Château de Bouillé Saint Paul

The first castle would date from the 13th century and was attached to the duchy of Thouars. The first known lord is Hardouin de Grésille. In the 15th century, Pierre Fleury, consolidated the fortress. It is then necessary to imagine a complex set around a courtyard protected by a wall punctuated by circular towers. A first drawbridge made it possible to cross a water ditch and to enter a courtyard defended by towers. There were various buildings: stable, barn, wine press... A second courtyard also surrounded by ditches and accessible by a bridge carried the keep and the lord's dwelling. In the 19th century, the castle underwent numerous modifications: 2 of the towers were integrated into a bourgeois house built against part of the surrounding wall to which were added outbuildings and a circular dovecote dating from the 16th century. Today it houses the town hall.