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Le château en bref
The Château de Foix, at Roquefort (Landes), is a fortress from the mid-13th century, probably commissioned by Gaston VII, Viscount of Béarn and of Marsan (1240-1290), and documented in 1251. Confiscated by English Aquitaine, it was given as a dowry to Constance in 1260, and in 1311 it passed to her sister Marguerite, wife of the Count of Foix, hence its name. Henry of Navarre stayed there in 1584. Damaged during the Wars of Religion, it was demolished in 1626 on the orders of Louis XIII; only one tower of dressed stone and rubble masonry survives.