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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