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Le château en bref
The keep of Salives, in the Côte-d'Or, is the main remnant of a castle whose village was given in 768 by Maurin to the Abbey of Flavigny. In 1256, Duke Hugh IV exchanged it with Guillaume de Mary for Villeberby; in 1415, John IV of Brabant ceded Salives to the lord of Châteauvillain, before the duke recovered the property in 1420. In 1590, during the Wars of Religion, Guy de Tavannes had two rebels who commanded the castle hanged. In 1774, Abbé Courtépée described 'a large tower, the remains of the former castle of our dukes, partly demolished during the civil wars, still 50 feet high'. The present tower, 16.80 metres high, stands on a hillside near the church; its walls, three metres thick at the base, include a southern access towards the village, a basement, a ground floor and three upper storeys, with a Romanesque window, a door and latrines on the top level. Listed as a Monument historique by decree of 9 June 1932, the keep suffered a partial collapse of its north face and north-east corner during a restoration in 1985.