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Château de Molinot, in the Côte-d'Or, is recorded as a stronghold of the Mont-Saint-Jean family as early as 1298. It passed in the 16th century to the Aumont family, who carried out various works there, and in 1656 it was described as a castle and fortified house with a drawbridge, comprising three large towers, a large main building (corps de logis), the keep courtyard and three ravelin bastions. In 1591, the captain of the castle and his soldiers were seized from the lower courtyard and taken by force to Châteauneuf-en-Auxois to be held for ransom. The building was destroyed by its owner in 1776; the Cassini map of 1763 already shows it as extensive ruins. A 65 x 70 metre platform survives, with a round tower at the north-west corner as the main remnant, outbuildings and a retaining wall reinforced by a small tower on the southern slope. It was listed in the inventory of Monuments historiques on 11 October 1990, with the dovecote separately classified on 14 June 1994.