Château de Gourville

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Le château en bref

The Château de Gourville, seat under the Ancien Régime of an important Poitevin seigneury holding the right of high, middle and low justice, combines a 12th-century Romanesque barrel-vaulted hall, a semicircular eastern keep from the 13th century and an imposing square western keep with machicolations from the 15th century. Richard the Lionheart seized it in 1178; Duke Anne de Montmorency renovated it in the Renaissance taste in 1550. The Duchess of Longueville received the writer François de La Rochefoucauld there during the Fronde (1649-1655). The château also welcomed Charles V, Henri IV and Louis XIV.