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Le château en bref
A fortified house (“domus fortis”) is documented at Praslin as early as 1250, held by Jacques de Plancy. Retaken from the Burgundian party by the King of France in 1474, the château served as the regular residence of the lords of Praslin; François de Choiseul was still living there in 1690. Seized as national property during the Revolution, it was slated for demolition as early as Year III (1794) and completely destroyed. All that remains today, in the centre of the village, is a mound of about 8,000 m³ covering the massive foundations and the filled-in underground passages of the château; counterfeit coinage was discovered there in the 19th century, produced clandestinely in its underground passages using dies dated 1580–1581.