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Le château en bref
Saint-Maurice Castle, also known as the Château de Marigny-sur-Ouche, in Saint-Victor-sur-Ouche (Côte-d'Or), is a fief recorded as early as 584, when King Guntram gave it to the Abbey of Saint-Bénigne. After changing hands several times in the 13th century, it returned to the duchy in 1296. The present fortress was built in the early 16th century by Christophe de Rochechouart, lord of Couches; in 1642, the seigneury extended over several villages. Already in ruins by 1757, it was bought in 1766 by Jean Paris de Montmartel, who reused its stones to rebuild the Château de Barbirey; the remaining ruins were vandalised during the Revolution. Perched on a rocky promontory, the site retains semicircular towers flanking the entrance, a rectangular corner tower pierced with arrow slits, a round tower and a hexagonal tower housing a dovecote, with rusticated (bossaged) masonry characteristic of the 16th century. An attempt to save the site in 1992 had no lasting effect; now overgrown with vegetation, it can only be reached by forest paths.