In the 17th and 18th centuries, the lordship of Fou was held by the family (Tiercelin) of Appelvoisin, marquess of La Roche du Maine, in Prinçay.[2]
In 1795, Charlotte Félicité Elisabeth (Tiercelin) d'Appelvoisin de La Roche du Maine married François-Gabriel-Thibault de La Brousse, marquis de Verteillac, baron de la Tour-Blanche, bringing to him the Château du Fou, where he died on 26 October 1854
In 1855, the castle was sold.[3] In the late nineteenth and twentieth century, it belonged to the family of La Borie de Campagne.
During the Second World War, the castle suffered bombardment on 2 August 1944, particularly damaging the south and north wings,[1] British bombers had attempted to flush out a German general, who had been occupying the castle as if a lord among his staff. German soldiers were buried under the castle, some dead or wounded, but the general escaped by plane the next morning.[4] The damage has since been restored.
The postern, the moat, the towers, the turret, the staircase and the vault were classified as historical monuments by a decree of 6 February 1953. The rest of the castle, including the parts not built on, were registered with the Supplementary Inventory of Historical Monuments by a decree of 9 November 2010.[1]
Architecture
The castle remains are the moat, the remains of the entrance postern with its two towers and the turret staircase with its vault.
^H. Beauchet-Filleau & Ch. de Chergé (1891). Dictionnaire historique et généalogique des Familles du Poitou (in French). Vol. 1. Poitiers: Imprimerie Oudin. pp. 85–86.
