Fombrauge’s history is linked to 3 families: the Canolles, the Dumas, and the Taffards.
The first mentions of Fombrauge… go back about six centuries. In 1466, a horseman by the name of Jacques de Canolle, made himself master of Fombrauge after acquiring the estate.
He was a man of great learning and an important figure, who was honoured for his work as France’s paymaster general and made “bourgeois” of the city of Bordeaux. He quickly set about farming his lands and planted his first vi
