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Le château en bref
The Château de Turcey, in the Côte-d'Or, is linked to the Abbey of Saint-Seine: in 1200, the lord of Sombernon gave it his possessions at Turcey; a charter of 1238 confirms that Gui, knight of Turcey, held fiefs from the Church. In 1533, Guillaume Bougard acknowledged holding from the abbey 'the fortified house of Turcey with a tower near the gateway and a drawbridge'. Étienne de Loisy, president of the Chambre des comptes of Burgundy, had the fortress partially rebuilt in 1605; a detailed inventory of 1611 describes an estate enclosed by walls and moats, with several towers, a gate with a drawbridge, living quarters, service buildings and a dovecote. The fortress has three round corner towers, a rectangular tower to the south and an eastern gate tower with a drawbridge, as well as a Renaissance chapel dated 1611, decorated with paintings and coats of arms, with a barrel vault. Abandoned at the end of the 18th century, it was sold as national property (bien national) in 1804. Two fireplaces were moved to Dijon in 1897, one to the Palais de Justice, the other to the Lycée Carnot. Now used for agricultural purposes, the building is deteriorating. The entrance gateway was listed as a Monument historique in 1928, and the château itself in 1999.