In the hamlet of St Aygue, blades of flint cut and tiles Roman were found. The construction of the castle by Guichard d' Oingt goes up in XIIIème century. Geoffroy de Balsac accepted the young Charles VIII there on October 30, 1490. Madam de Sévigné remained with the castle the night of October 11, 1673. The revolution proceeded in Bagnols without excess nor notorious destruction, in spite of the unhappy history of the muscadins which marked the memory of the men forever. At the time of the second world war, the stained glasses of the cathedral St Jean and the majority of the works of art of the department of the Rhone were hidden with the castle. The houses of Bagnols are built out of gilded stone resulting from the careers of the village. They date from the XVIIème century (1615 with the hamlet of Longchamp) and from the XVIIIème century and often take again older elements. The local stone masons were 19 to the XVIIème century and 11 at the XIXème century of which C.M. Dugelay, author of the cross of the place. The church of Bagnols appears in the cartulaire of the County of Lyon into 948. The current church which dates from XVème century was increased in 1850.
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