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Le château en bref
Château du Cros, known as Cros-Perdrigeon, lies about four kilometres north of Thiers, in the Puy-de-Dôme. Built in the early 14th century, it belonged in 1304 to Pierre du Croc, damoiseau, and in 1460 to Philibert du Croc, who paid homage to the Dauphin of Auvergne in 1545. In 1714, the daughter of Jean-Claude du Croc married Emmanuel Gaspard, Marquis du Bourg. The castle then passed to the families de La Mure du Chautois and Fabry, before being acquired around 1805 by the notary François Perdrigeon, whose name it took; in 1868, it passed by marriage to Charles Octave de Viry. This fortified castle has a quadrangular curtain wall surrounded by a moat, originally flanked by four round corner towers, two of which survive. Its gatehouse tower, pierced by an arrow slit, retains traces of the drawbridge replaced in the 18th century by a stone bridge; its walls reach two metres in thickness and combine stone plinths with pisé. Privately owned, it can be seen from afar from a footpath.