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Le château en bref
The Château d'Anterroches, in the Alagnon valley in the commune of Murat (Cantal), although geographically and historically linked to Le Valagnon (commune of Laveissière), is a 13th-century medieval building, considerably restored and enlarged in the Troubadour style at the end of the 19th century, with crenellations, bartizans and mullioned windows. Owned by the Chambon family until 1478, then by Jean de Traverse and the Anterroches family, it was acquired at the beginning of the 19th century by Jacques de Brives and then by his son Eugène de Brives (1810-1891), who sold it in 1856 to Louis-François d'Anterroches (1817-1883), whose descendants own it today. The château owes its fame to one of its illustrious occupants, Joseph Charles Alexandre d'Anterroches (1710-1785), lieutenant general of the royal armies, to whom are attributed the quotations "Gentlemen of England, fire first!" (« Messieurs les Anglais, tirez les premiers ! »), uttered at the Battle of Fontenoy, and "Impossible is not French" (« Impossible n'est pas français »).