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The Château de Tournebu, whose remains stand in the Cinglais area, in the former commune of Tournebu in Calvados, was built in the 12th century by the first barons of Tournebu, who took part in the Franco-English conflicts of the 14th and 15th centuries. It passed to the de Thère family in 1452, was bought back by Pierre de Tournebu in 1701, and in 1806 came to Jean-Jacques-Luc-Edmond de Foucault, whose descendants kept it until 2012. The cylindrical keep, 21 metres high and 12 metres in diameter, square on the inside and circular on the outside, bears mason's marks carved by the stonemasons before the stones were laid. Privately owned and not open to visitors, the remains are listed as a historic monument (monument historique).