Sagonne Castle A thousand years of history - Mansart exhibition
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The demolitions that followed the castle’s sale as national property in 1791, and which continued for over a century, left an enclosure composed of curtain walls (some of which still exist), six towers (two of which have only their bases left), a fortified gate and a rectangular keep flanked on the west by three towers and on the east by a staircase tower.

This castral complex retains many traces of its defensive system, particularly in its northern and western sections. The surrounding towers have a heeled base, and the first floor is vaulted into a cul-de-four. The entrance structure is traversed by a 15th-century pointed-arch vaulted corridor, which still bears the structure of a stunner, the portcullis passage and the hanging leaves. The west façade is buttressed by two buttresses supporting corbelled turrets overlooking the bridge over the moat. On either side are the curtain walls flanked by U-shaped towers. The walls are pierced with arches, cruciform arches and gunports.

A staircase built into the thickness of the wall leads to the upper storey, which has retained the portcullis chamber. On the north side, the curtain walls have been opened up by the facade of the dwellings, which have been set against the enclosure on the courtyard side. These buildings consist of stables to the south and intendance and garrison dwellings to the north. They date from the 15th to 18th centuries.

The keep has lost its roof. It comprises a rectangular building flanked by towers. To the north, the three-storey seigneurial dwelling is flanked by a U-shaped tower at the north-west corner. The central part is built as a rectangular tower with a vaulted corridor beneath. The facade is composed of two projecting buttresses joined on the fourth level by a pointed-arch arch surmounting the windows on each floor. The tops of the buttresses bear the corbels of turrets that no longer exist.