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Chateau Sainte Barbe was built between 1760 and 1770 by Jean-Baptist Lynch. The Lynch family arrived in Bordeaux at the end of the 17th Century, fleeing religious persecution in Ireland. The family owned several wine merchants and Châteaux and reached the highest positions in Bordeaux society. Jean-Baptiste Lynch himself became Mayor of Bordeaux between 1809 and 1815.
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Sainte Barbe is situated on the peninsular of Ambès 20 kms from Bordeaux. Despite its proximity, this was a region that we had never visited before. Over the last century the district had become industrialised leaving only a scattering of large bourgeois homes that had been very prestigeous in the nineteenth century.
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