The Château d'Allègre is a ruined castle in the commune of Allègre in the Haute-Loire département of France.
The ruins consist of two corner towers of the former keep, joined by a section of machicolation and round walk, and the base of a tower in the enceinte.
The castle was the seat of the second barony of Auvergne. It was constructed towards the end of the 14th century with three fortified enceintes. It was built by Morinot de Tourzel, a favourite of the Duc de Berry, using plans drawn up by the architect Hugues Aubriot, architect of the Bastille.
The castle underwent several sieges during the Hundred Years' War and, in 1593, the war against the Catholic League. It was burned down on 15 November 1698.
The castle has been the property of the commune since the French Revolution and has been used as a source of building material. It has been protected since 1935 as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture.

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The Chateau des Roure was a strong point on the ancient route by the Pont d’Arc. In the 11th century, a Viraco tower belonging to the Benedictine monks of Virac was mentioned.
It dates back to the end of the 14th/beginning of the 15th century. It belonged to the family of Pierre de Beauvoir de Grimoard du Roure until 1825; then to the Pradier family, whose descendants are the present owners. An important site during the wars of religion, the chateau welcomed the Duc de Rohan (the Huguenot leader) in 1628.
In 1629. Louis XIII and Richelieu ordered the destruction of the defenses of the chateau and of the ramparts of the village. After the Edict of Nantes was revoked in 1685, the Count of Roure renounced the Protestant faith and became Catholic.
During the Camisard revolt in 1703, Jean Chevalier (their leader) attacked the Chateau de Roure and burned the village church.
The Chateau de Roure has been open to the public since 1975 and was classified as a Historic Monument in 1978. From October 2013 till March 2016 important restoration was carried out to return the Chateau des Roure to its original appearance before 1629.
New rooms were opened to the public in Spring 2016.
https://www.chateaudesroure.com

Château des Roure

The Château de Portes is a castle located in the commune of Portes in the Gard département of France. It overlooks the Regordane, an ancient avenue used by the pilgrims of Saint-Giles and the Croisés on their way towards the Holy Land for a distance of ten miles. The Anduze, Randon and Polignac families paid homage to the abbot of Saint-Pierre-de-Sauve for this castle between the 11th and the 14th centuries. The castle is listed as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture.
History
Raymond Guillaume de Budos, the nephew of Pope Clement V, bought the seigniory in 1322, and added at least two additional flanks to the castle in 1384. Thibaud de Budos recovered the castle after deposing his father André, who had joined with the English at the beginning of the Hundred Years' War.
The seigniory became increasingly rich and powerful until Louis XII set it up as a marquisat in favour of Antoine Hercules de Budos, to whom is undoubtedly owed the form of the present castle. His father was a bishop of Agde, one of his sisters a duchess of Montmorency, and another the abbess of "l'Abbaye des Dames" (The Abbey of Dames) in Caen. The Maréchal-de-Camp was killed in the siege of Privas in 1629. His daughter, Marie-Félice, left the castle as an heirloom to her nephew, Prince de Conti, in 1693, whose descendants sold it to Louis XVI in 1781.
With the French Revolution, the castle was nationalised and sold to six successive owners. In 1841, in the hands of the Vernede family, the monument was restored from its decrepit condition.
In 1929, following the intensive exploitation of the coal mines under the site, the ground broke down ruining the castle and forcing its evacuation. The village was rebuilt about 300 metres further. Circa 1960, the grounds were stabilised and in 1972 an association was formed to recover the castle. It has been classified as a historical monument since 1984.
Architecture
The castle has a singular architectural style among castles in Europe because of its 49 degree spurs in the shape of a ship's bow, which earned the castle its nickname of a vessel in the Cévennes (French: un vaisseau en Cévennes).

Château de Portes

Originally, Château de la Selve was a fortified house first on the frontier of the Empire and then of the Kingdom of France.
It then became the hunting lodge of a famous family from the Vivarais, the Dukes de Joyeuse, before being transformed, century after century, into a farm.
Built during the 13th century, it has the typical architecture of all houses and castles of the Bas-Vivarais.
Located on the bank of the Chassezac, the main Ardèche’s tributary, it benefits from a unique and protected environment.
In 1990, this magnificent house became the property of my parents, Jean-Régis and Magdeleine Chazallon. Today, a wing of the castle has been converted into five Gîtes de France (from 3 to 6 persons). In a large yard planted with trees, they offer a heaven of peace in the heart of the increasingly toured Ardèche.
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