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Le château en bref
The château fort of Rochefort-sur-Brévon, in the Côte-d'Or, is a first castle attested as early as 1235, owned by the lord of Le Puiset and built on a rocky spur overlooking the church and the pond. Destroyed by fire in 1730, only three towers and a chapel survive from it. Around 1820, a new château was built using salvaged materials from the prior's lodging of the Abbey of Val des Choues, re-erected stone by stone on the original feudal site. The present building, of rendered limestone rubble, has two full storeys beneath a roof with long broken slopes covered in flat tiles and slate; a cylindrical dovecote remains the only vestige of the medieval fortress. Listed as a Monument historique in 1943.