In turn it was a fortified town in Gallic, Gallo-Roman and then medieval times.
Behind the East gate, which was constructed in the Middle ages, a narrow cobbled street leads to the church of Saint-Martial with its fine gothic portal while inside can be seen the recumbent figure of Marguerite de Chabot who died in 1503. Behind the church stands the castle with its outer wall, moat - now used as a vegetable garden the shingle-covered tower and an old outbuilding, the "logis", an elegant house with a pepper pot turret and the graveyard lantern in the cemetery.