The Nozets and the Lafonds
In the middle of the 17th century the Nozet seigneurie was therefore in the hands of Louis le Jeune du Broc du Nozet, and after marrying Avoye de Régnier in Paris in 1658 they had two sons, François (born 1659, and who seems to have lost his generational suffix, perhaps because his father was named Louis) and Guillaume Antoine. François, presumably the elder of the two, married Edouarde Louise Léonarde de la Barre, and he transmitted the title to his eldest son, who was also called François. Sometime during this era the château underwent some further building work, bringing it a little closer to how it looks today, although it was still understated compared to the modern facade.
François de Broc du Nozet was born in 1697, and he appears to have been the last in the line to hold the title of seigneur du Nozet. He married in 1733, and he and his wife Marie Catherine de Bianki had one son, Guillaume Antoine. Nevertheless Guillaume does not appear to inherit the Nozet seigneurie (although he was not short of other titles), and it becomes clear that François was the sixth and final member of this noble dynasty to claim this title. Instead, it now crops up in the possession first of Claude Vaillant de Guélis (born 1710), and it was subsequently passed into the hands of Claude-Marie Dodart, seigneur de Saint-Andélain, later that same century.
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