Pécany (formerly Pechcany) means a flat elevated place on top of a hill. The title of Lord of Pécany appeared for the first time with the marriage of Jean de Courssou to Suzanne du Pont, in 1593. Their descendants retained the title until 1884. Etienne de Courssou de Pécany, married in 1825 Miss Guestier, daughter of an important Bordeaux ship merchant. He would become deputy mayor of Bordeaux. They had six children. Among them, Mr. Jean-Jacques de Courssou de Pécany, who was sub-prefect of Bergerac. The Courssou de Pécany family is related with the Courssou de Caillevel and the Brunets du Septy.
The house, rebuilt in the 19th century, has two angled wings which bring equilibrium to the main building adorned with watchtowers, stone fireplaces and numerous dormer windows. The facade opens to the north onto a courtyard surrounded by outbuildings and to the south onto a vast meadow. Located in one of the oldest wine regions in France, Château Pécany had a small vineyard for the production of house wine.
In 1883, it was Mr. Stanislas Seguin, from Paris, who became the owner of Pécany. He was an engineer, part of a family that gave rise to several engineers and businessmen who played an essential role in the industrial development of France in the 19th and 20th centuries. They played a major role in the development of land communications, by building the first bridges suspended from wire cables in Europe, by inventing the tubular boiler at the origin of the rise of steam traction railways, and by creating the railway line from Saint-Étienne to Lyon, the first line in France in 1832 to experiment with traction by steam engine: the Seguin locomotive. Stanislas Seguin's mother was related to the Montgolfier balloonist’s family. Upon his death in 1906, Stanilas Seguin bequeathed the property of Pécany to his nephew Camille Seguin who lived in the Château de Colombier in Annonay in the Ardèche.
In 1926 Jean Siegler, polytechnician, major of his promotion, mining engineer, vice-president of Lyonnaise des eaux, (cousin, by his wife, to the Courssou family) bought the property and, over time, enlarged the vineyard in buying the surrounding land. The Pécany wine was put on sale for the first time at this time. Since, the castle has always remained in the same family.
