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La Roche Guyon castle on the Seine river

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To continue the tour of the historic sites around my home airfield, this is the La Roche Guyon castle, seen from my Avid.

It has two parts, the upper one being the tower built in the XIIth century  on the cliff to mark the border between the king of France own domain and the duchy of Normandy (which had been given to the Viking chief Rollon to settle the peace with the "Northmen").

The lower part was built in more peaceful times between the XVIth and XVIIIth century.

The castle had gone virtually intact thru centuries, wars and revolutions when it was heavily damaged by a stupid USAF bombing on Aug. 24th, 1944 (although the last german soldier had fled one week earlier !)

The castle still belongs to the Larochefoucault family, its original builder.

 

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