Château de Claviers

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Le château en bref

The Château de Claviers, which once overlooked the Mars valley from a rocky spur facing Anglards-de-Salers, in the commune of Moussages (Cantal), was the seat of the barony of Claviers, a dependency of the bishops of Clermont. The chapel of Jailhac, built below it, is today its only remaining vestige, together with a few barely discernible ruins. The date of the castle's destruction remains unknown; a local legend, recorded by J.-B. De Ribier in his statistical dictionary of the Cantal, tells that a young lady of Claviers, in despair at her parents' refusal to let her marry a Montclar, set fire to the castle and perished in the flames while trying to retrieve a jewel casket – a version later taken up by the writer Henri Pourrat, who replaced the jewels with a wild rose locked in a casket by her lover.