Château de Rougemont

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Le château en bref

Château de Rougemont, mentioned in the Middle Ages, was built around the 12th century in the commune of Aranc, in the Ain department. Guillaume de Rougemont, a knight, is its first documented lord (1150). The seigneury remained in the Rougemont family until 1613, then passed to the Grenaud family (1613–1710) and subsequently to the Montillet de Grenaud family (1710–1795), whose last holder, Louis Honoré de Montillet de Grenaud, died in exile in 1795. Declared national property (bien national) during the Revolution, and already in poor condition by 1776, the castle now survives as ruins overgrown with vegetation (east and south walls, remains of a round tower, a spiral staircase and a chapel). In the 21st century, the Rougemont family of Bourg-en-Bresse acquired the ruins with a view to restoring them.