From a modest farm to a large estate, the house, owned by the Sicart family, is gradually enriched, to be up to this place of representation of royal power. Indeed, for 100 years, the Sicarts, from father to son, were in charge of Viguier, representative of the King of France for Cerdagne. The turmoil of the French Revolution causing the charge of viguier to disappear, and the estate then had other destinies. In 1810, it was sold to a prosperous Barcelona merchant, Mathieu Riu, and it took its current name: Cal Mateu. Nevertheless, the estate retained its agricultural activity until the 1990s, when Jacques and Marie Bragulat, local farmers since 1952, retired.