Cinq-Mars-la-Pile · Indre-et-Loire
The moats of Cinq-Mars
Razed on Richelieu’s orders after the execution of Henri de Ruzé d’Effiat in 1642, the fortress of Cinq-Mars keeps two towers and its sixteenth-century moats, crossed by a three-arched bridge.
From the source
Château de Cinq-Mars is a château at Cinq-Mars-la-Pile, Indre-et-Loire, in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France. The recorded building campaigns date from the 12th, 13th, 15th and 16th centuries. It is protected as a monument historique at the higher of the two levels (classé). Details are drawn from the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture.
Editorial reading
The record follows the site from its first known lord in 1050 to the demolition of 1642. What remains is the fifteenth-century guards’ lodging between two round towers, the east tower, the thirteenth-century south tower and the base of the late-twelfth-century keep, all crowned by a fanciful modern crenellation, and a triangular outwork called the Éperon. The moats were remade in the sixteenth century, and the drawbridge replaced by a fixed bridge of three arches. The two surviving towers and the moats with their bridge were classified in 1976. The Base Mérimée records a garden among the site’s features; the moats are the part of it the record describes.
Sources
Base Mérimée — immeubles protégés · PA00097698 — Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab) — Ministère de la Culture, base Mérimée
Wikimedia Commons · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ch%C3%A2teau%20Cinq-Mars-la-Pile%201.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0
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