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The château of Prissé (Saône-et-Loire) is a fortified manor house, the residence of the bishops of Mâcon. A fortified house was built there between 1167 and 1185, and in 1365 the bishop of Mâcon had a new château built there; in 1603, the fief was held jointly by the king and the bishop. Measuring roughly 25 m by 8.20 m, it comprises a rectangular main building of one square storey, three square habitable towers with pavilion roofs, and a round conical turret at the south-east corner, a hexagonal stair turret at the centre of the façade, and a small tower with arrow loops to the south of the courtyard. Remodelled in the early modern period, it became a country residence.