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March 26, 2007
Niort 790191 79000
Deux-Sèvres Poitou-Charentes
46.317 -0.467 25 m

Keep, last vestige of a vast castle of the 12th century. Second more important keep of France after that of Vincennes. Two turn of 18 and 23 m.

Built on order of Henri II Plantagenêt, King of England and his son "Richard coeur de Lion". Poitou had passed under English domination after the rupture of the marriage of Aliénor of Aquitaine and Louis VII, king of France, and his remarriage with Henri Plantagenêt in 1154, the future Henri II.

http://balade-en-maraispoitevin.chez-alice.fr/htm/niort.htm

This Keep, become prison, saw the birth on November 27 1635 of "Francoise D'Aubigné", girl of "Constant d'Aubigné", accustomed jails of the keep, son of the poet "Agrippa d'Aubigné". "Francoise d'Aubigné" was going to become the marchioness of Maintenon, marries of the king Louis XIV in 1683.

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