The castle of Pennautier, nicknamed the Versailles du Languedoc, was built in 1620, at the end of the Wars of Religion, for Bernard de Reich de Pennautier, treasurer of the States of Languedoc.

On 14 July 1622, the castle welcomed the young King Louis XIII en route to Perpignan and Bernard de Pennautier, the first magistrate of the city "pronounced the host harangue". Without being known the exact reason for this gift, the king offers the castle his "travel furniture", precious together covered with superb wool tapestries and silk stuffed, with a canopy bed and six armchairs whose tapestries can bends to travel in the trunks. This furniture, classified as a Historic Monument, is still carefully preserved in the Roise's Chamber".

Pierre Louis Reich de Pennautier, son of Bernard, who took his sequel. Like his father, he was treasurer of the states of Languedoc. He has also been a receiver-general of the Clergy since 1669. He stayed regularly at Versailles, at the court of Louis XIV from where he brought back architectural fashions and promoted politics and the economy. Saint-Simon wrote of him that he was "a great man very well made, very gallant, very magnificent, respectful and very obliging" and that "he had a great spirit". In 1670, he began the expansion of his castle of Pennautier and the drawing of the French park, long attributed to Le Vau and Le Nôtre. An engraving, Pierre Louis de Pennautier was an active supporter of Molière who stayed and "giving comedy" to Pennautier.

Between 1835 and 1850, the son of Jacques de Beynaguet de Pennautier, knight of Saint Pardoux, launched a new phase of work on the castle and further expanded it by filling the central courtyard and renovating the interior with in particular mosaic soils in Italian.] He redesigned the park to the English fashion of the time.

The family of Beynaguet died definitively in 1971 after the death of Madame Jean Guizard, née Odette de Beynaguet de Pennautier (1881–1971), the only daughter of Gaston de Pennautier and Louise Azais. In 1910, the heir to the estate, Paule de Pennautier (1892–1952), daughter of Amédée de Pennautier (fraternity brother of Georges de Beynaguet de Pennautier) married Christian de Lorgeril. In 1920, Lorgeril's family undertook a major renovation that would lead in particular to the suppression of the north-eastern wing damaged by a fire. On the park side, the central forebody is capped with an imposing frontal to the arms of the families of Lorgeril and Beynaguet de Pennautier.

The Family of Lorgeil undertook a complete renovation of the building. On this occasion, all the archives of the castle (nearly 15 m of library) are placed in storage at the Aude departmental archives. The castle, completely renovated, became a place that hosts events and business seminars

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