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The Château de Saint-Julien, also known as Saint-Jullin, is located in Siccieu-Saint-Julien-et-Carisieu, in the Isère department. This former fortified house, attributed to the second half of the 13th century, is mentioned in 1339 in a papal inquiry. According to tradition, it passed to Étienne de la Poype, constable of the Dauphiné, and the lordship was raised to a county in 1739; the Chaponnay family inherited it after an acquisition in 1752. Partly destroyed during the Revolution, it was rebuilt from 1836 to 1848 by Jean Pollet for the comtesse de Chaponnay, and work resumed in the 1850s under the vicomte de Monteynard. The neo-medieval château is organised around a rectangular courtyard closed to the north by a monumental gateway with false machicolations; the main residential block, of asymmetrical plan, is dominated by a tall central tower in the form of a false keep, flanked by corner bartizans. The masonry of rendered limestone rubble has slate and tile roofs; the interior retains vaulting, a monumental staircase, painted decoration and stucco. The park contains a fountain, a lavoir and a fabrique. The château was converted into a holiday centre in the early 1960s.
