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Le château en bref
The Château de Mont-Saint-Jean, in the Côte-d'Or, occupies a fortified site whose first motte probably predates the year 1000; in 924, Duke Raoul of Burgundy, then King of France, besieged the fortress. An agreement was concluded in 1180 between the Bishop of Autun and Hugh, lord of Mont-Saint-Jean, whose family retained control of the site until 1358, when Hugh exchanged it for the lordship of Montbelet. Passing to the barons of Charny in 1439, the estate was raised to a county by Philip the Good in 1456. A description of 1658 evokes a fortress with ten great towers linked by a powerful wall. Already in ruins in 1869, the whole of the castle and its moats was classified as a Monument historique in 1930, while the curtain walls and towers were listed in 1936.