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Le château en bref
Pleujouse Castle stands on a rocky spur in the east of the Ajoie region, at the foot of the Rangiers mountain range, in the municipality of La Baroche (canton of Jura). The village developed at its foot, between a chapel, a former school and farms dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. The name Pleujouse first appears in 1105, referring to a noble family that owned a fortified castle there, the first tower of which was erected around 1100. From the 13th century onwards, the building was held as a fief of the prince-bishops of Basel and passed through the hands of several noble families, either as a fief or as a pledge. It underwent several phases of destruction and reconstruction. Sold as national property during the Revolution, it was bought back in 1924 by the Association pour la conservation du château de Pleujouse. A fire in the early 1980s destroyed part of it, which was subsequently rebuilt. The complex today consists of a 13th-century circular keep and a 16th-century residence; since 1988 it has housed a restaurant. A local legend is attached to it, that of the White Lady Alie d'Asuel and her lover Huson de Pleujouse.
