Ancien palais épiscopal ou ancien château , puis foyer pour enfants à caractère social

English translation

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History

Diocese created in 1317 by dismemberment of that of Toulouse. In the 15th century, restoration of all the buildings of the abbey, including the episcopal palace, in ruins. In the second half of the 16th century, the bishopric is left abandoned. Suppressed at the Revolution, the church becomes parochial and the episcopal palace is sold. The palace forms an independent entity, south of the convent buildings and church, leaning directly on the southern gallery of the cloister. It occupies one of the former convent buildings (the former refectory - dormitory) rebuilt, like the chapter house, in the Gothic period. The levels and interior distribution have been modified. The ground floor is punctuated by four diaphragm arches with dressed voussoirs, bearing the year 1767. The modern episcopal palace conceals an older building, of the 14th-15th centuries, of which many remnants subsist (loophole, flamboyant window, walled-up openings...). Three vestiges of circular towers occupied the angles of the building. In the modern period, the addition of two buildings on court, intended to ensure circulation of the different levels. The episcopal residence then concentrates on the south and west wings. The large south building was the last to be constructed, at the end of the 18th century. It turns its back on the medieval palace and has its own autonomy. It consists of a central block framed by two slightly projecting lateral wings. Inside, the reception rooms and bedrooms received decoration of plasterwork, marble chimneys, wainscoting.