Guéret

Guéret became an administrative centre of La Marche amid the hills of central France. The handsome Hôtel des Moneyroux was built after 1447 for Antoine Alard, treasurer of the county, and speaks to the wealth of its officers. In 1515 the formerly itinerant seneschal's court of La Marche acquired permanent seats at Guéret for the upper county and Bellac for the lower, strengthening Guéret's role in the administration of justice.