The Château de Bressuire is a ruined castle in the town of Bressuire in the Deux-Sèvres département of France.
The site has been inhabited continuously since the Celtic epoch. The castle was built on the site of an oppidum of the Gauls and was first documented in 1029, in a charter at Saint-Cyprien de Poitiers. It belonged to the Beaumont-Bressuire family until the start of the 16th century.
The castle is a fine example of medieval military architecture. In 1190, the castle consisted of an enceinte almost 700 metres around, with 38 towers circling the first fortress, itself defended by eight towers.
The visible remains date essentially from the end of the 12th and the start of the 13th century. The fortress included three enceintes, of which the outermost has now disappeared. The castle was broken up during the first half of the 18th century.
In 1441, Jacques de Beaumont became Seigneur de Bressuire. He converted the castle into a beautiful residence. From this time date the large building closing off the courtyard, that has mullion windows, splendid granite chimneys in the private rooms and an elegant gallery, all intended to show the refinement of the owner. The castle subsequently belonged to a number of families but its maintenance was ignored. In 1876, the building partly collapsed. The Bernard family bought the castle the same year. In 1880, a neo-Gothic château was built in the castle court, set back in relation to the former building.
The castle was acquired by the commune in 1975. It has been listed since 1996 as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture.

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Pierre de Montfaucon, lord of this castle, had it built around 1370. The seigniory then depended on Guillaume Larchevêque, Lord of Parthenay. During this period, the castle was surrounded by a moat, supplied by the (still existing) river “le Sevreau”. The Montfaucon family fortified the castle in the 15th century by adding the impressive 28 metre keep. The castle was mainly a place of residence.
Four family came after, the Montfaucon family in the 16th , 17th and 18th centuries, the Duplessis, Vaudrey de Saint Phal, Petit de la Guierche and Vasselot families also lived in the castle. 
Incidentally, it was in the 17th century that the castle had its largest architectural reorganization: windows, doors, fireplaces, tiling and roofing. 
The moats were later drained in the 18th century. The Vasselot family, the last owners of the castle, left in 1766.
Château de Saint-Mesmin was never subjected to acts of war in the Middle Ages. The only known siege was during the War in the Vendée. In February 1796, around forty royalist inhabitants of the Vendée took refuge in the castle. They resisted the republican army for four days, but had to surrender when they ran out of provisions. The castle was sold as a bien national (national property) in 1798.
The Proust family bought it with its estate in 1818. It was used as a military hospital in the First World War. Although it was listed in the French supplementary inventory of historic monuments in 1943, it slowly deteriorated. The creation of the Château de Saint-Mesmin Association gave a new lease of life to the castle.
Indeed, in 1990, Mr Paul Proust, the owner, retroceded the castle and its outbuildings to the association. It then ensured its preservation, (listed as a historic building in 1993), restoration and organized events. Located in the municipality of Saint-André-sur-Sèvre, in the county of Deux-Sèvres, since 2003, the castle has belonged to the Joint Association (syndicat mixte) of Château de Saint-Mesmin.
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Château de Saint-Mesmin

Château de Tennessus is a French castle located along the provincial road 127, in the extreme southeast of the town of Amailloux in the Deux-Sèvres department in Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou region Charentes. Tennessus Castle was built in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and its tower is already mentioned in 1404. During the Revolution, his owners emigrated in 1792 and in 1793. A decree of the Directory of Deux-Sèvres condemns Tennessus castle demolition, but the sentence will not be executed. The castle was registered as a historical monument January 7, 1943, and the garden soil and their enclosing walls September 28, 1993 and finally common September 19, 2007. The site is now converted into guest rooms. Castle Tennessus is surrounded by a moat and the western part of the enclosure is retained. It surrounds all the farm buildings that surround a rectangular courtyard protected by two towers leveled. The home dates from the seventeenth century and was modified in the eighteenth century. The date 1771 was then placed.
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