Château de la Roque

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Le château en bref

The Château de la Roque, in Meyrals in the Dordogne, was built as early as the 12th century on the southern slope of a Celtic oppidum. Owned by the Beynac family and later by the Beaumont family, it was the birthplace of Christophe de Beaumont, future Archbishop of Paris, whom Louis XV exiled there in 1754 after his condemnation of Rousseau's Émile. Its two 15th-century residential wings set at right angles, flanked by machicolated towers, and its oratory decorated with early 16th-century frescoes — a reproduction of which is kept at the Musée des Monuments français in Paris — make it a remarkable ensemble, listed as a historic monument.