A 14th century castle rebuilt, or rather reinvented, by Eugène
Viollet-le-Duc for Napoleon III from 1857 onwards. Before that it was a
picturesque ruin; after the work it became the model for French Romantic
medievalism, with battlemented towers, gargoyles, a moat and a
painstaking Gothic Revival decorative scheme. Today it turns up
constantly in films and television (Merlin, Joan of Arc).
