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Le château en bref
The Château de Rocheprise, in Brémur-et-Vaurois (Côte-d'Or), also known as the Château de Martigny, was built in 1551 as a fortified residence with small moats and a drawbridge, whose registration received royal approval on 2 December 1613. Melchior d'Agey held the seigneurial rights over Rocheprise, Brémur and Vaurois; in 1684, Félicien de Sommyèvre endowed a mass in the château chapel. During the Wars of Religion, in 1593, M. Fyot d'Arbois fortified Brémur with about a hundred men, while the regional authorities sought artillery to bombard Brémur, Rocheprise and the Château d'Aisey. Arranged around a trapezoidal courtyard lined by four buildings, the château retains on its east façade, facing the village, its 16th-century character: a round-arched drawbridge entrance flanked by rusticated pilasters, eight gunports with oval splays, rusticated quoins and round arches on the courtyard side, complemented by a round tower. The other parts are Neo-Gothic additions. Privately owned and not open to visitors, its east wing, outbuildings and dovecote are protected as Monuments historiques by decree of 12 December 1975.