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Le château en bref
The château of Combles-en-Barrois, in the Meuse department, dates from 1571 and was built at the initiative of the Camus family. Constructed of limestone and wood, it is topped by a hipped roof of flat tiles; two wings were added in the eighteenth century, and its openings sit beneath segmental-arched lintels. From 1868, M. Saincère, mayor of Bar-le-Duc, carried out extensive alterations and raised the main body, respecting its sixteenth-century proportions. It then passed to the Dugny family, local farmers in the village. After the Second World War, a club for American non-commissioned officers was established there; in the mid-1950s, the 16-hectare park, planted with rare species, was home to a nine-hole golf course, whose clubhouse occupied the ground floor. The Americans left the site in 1967. A nineteenth-century dovecote completes the ensemble.