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The Château de Brie-Comte-Robert is a medieval castle in the French commune of Brie-Comte-Robert, in the Seine-et-Marne department, Île-de-France region, about thirty kilometres south-east of Paris.
At the end of the 12th century, Robert of Dreux, brother of King Louis VII of France, founded the town of Brie-Comte-Robert and had his castle built there. It was laid out on a square plan, flanked by eight towers and surrounded by moats. Jeanne d'Évreux, heiress to the castle, brought the town of Brie-Comte-Robert into the royal domain through her marriage to King Charles IV.
During the Fronde, which began in 1649, the castle was looted and partly destroyed by royal troops under the Count of Grancey.
In 1750 the towers and curtain walls were demolished, with only part of the first floor and the Saint-Jean tower being kept. The building was then put up for sale in September 1793 as national property.
The commune of Brie-Comte-Robert bought the castle and then resold it to private owners, who razed what remained of the Saint-Jean tower to build a bourgeois house. The town bought back the castle in 1923 and had it listed as a historic monument in 1925.
Since the association "Les Amis du Vieux Château de Brie-Comte-Robert" was founded in 1982, volunteers have worked on excavations, restoration of the built heritage and enhancement of the site.