Château du Châtelier

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Le château en bref

At the hamlet of Le Châtelier, in the commune of Paulmy in Southern Touraine, the remains of a fortified castle stand on a circular limestone plateau, whose enclosure closely follows the terrain. The first castle was built in the 12th century in an area contested between the Plantagenets and the Capetians, and was then largely rebuilt between the 15th and 17th centuries. A cylindrical 15th-century keep with a slender silhouette now dominates the courtyard. After the Wars of Religion, under the influence of the Huguenot captain François de La Noue, Le Châtelier became a Protestant stronghold facing the Catholic town of Paulmy. Sold by its last lord at the end of the 17th century, it served as a farm from 1794 to 1966, before being bought back by the Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson family, present in the region since the 18th century and still the owner. The remains of the original keep, the curtain walls, and the façades and roofs of the main residence are protected as monuments historiques, as are the moats and the barn.