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Verteuil Castle

Charente, Nouvelle-aquitaine, France
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About Verteuil Castle

The Verteuil Castle is a chronicled structure in Charente, France. It goes back to 1080 and has since been broadly reconstructed, albeit 12th century dividers remain. The manor has dependably been in the property of the La Rochefoucauld family. Amid the Hundred Years' War the estate was involved a few times by the English. It was devastated in 1442, however was soon revamped utilizing the first stones. In the religious wars of 16th and 17th century the house was a base for Huguenot powers, and in 1650 it was incompletely annihilated by illustrious troops.

Another house was raised however it got broad harm in a flame in 1793 amid the French Revolution. The manor was remodeled in the sentimental style after the Bourbon Restoration of 1815, and has been broadly changed from that point forward. Amid World War II the manor housed French troops and displaced people from Alsace-Lorraine in 1940 and for a while it was in part involved by some German units. In 1944 a few individuals from the maquis were covered up there. The manor was recorded as a landmark historique on 31 March 1966, and acquired full insurance on 19 November 2010. You can come here and explore this place.

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