Castle of Bouloc

the Castle of Bouloc-lez-Ceilhes was located in the area Languedoc and the department of the Herault, in France.

History

The Fortiam Bonoloco (" Extremely of Bonlieu") was in the high valley of the Orb on the commune of Ceilhes-and-Rocozels located in the department of the Herault. It had been built with the Moyen-âge towards the end of the 10th century or at the beginning of the 11th century because its existence is attested in 1025. It belonged to the seigneuriales families of Alban and Promillac.

At 17th and the 18th centuries it had been deeply transformed by the Rosset de Rocozels become Rosset de Rocozels of Fleury. During the Revolution, the last lord of Bouloc Andre-Hercules-Marie-Louis de Rosset de Rocozels duke and par of Fleury gained the foreigner to join the army of the emigrants. His wife Aimee de Coigny duchess of Fleury, friend very close to the queen Marie-Antoinette had been imprisoned under the Terreur and had been saved of accuracy of the scaffold by the fall of Robespierre.

The castle of Bouloc and the other properties of the duke were sold like national good with one manufacturing of cloths of Lodève, under the terms of the application of the decree of the legislative Parliament in date September 2nd, 1792, confiscating the goods of the emigrants.

In 1964, the castle of Bouloc was shaved by the National company of the Low-Rhone at the time of the setting in water of the stopping of Avène intended to contain the risings of Orb. Located 8 kilometers downstream, the dam Avène to its maximum level of filling flooded only the lower parts of the castle. Simple a Digue four meters height would have made it possible to safeguard this invaluable element of the inheritance of the Languedoc. But it was decided by it differently and this symbol of the Old mode in charge of thousand years of history disappeared to leave the place to a water level: Taoutas.

Structure

The pillars of the gate of honor set up at the 18th century and surmounted fire pots were dismounted and transferred to Montpellier, where they decorate the entry of the zoo of Lunaret. Most of the stones of the castle of Bouloc was employed again for construction in 1965 of the orthodoxe monastery Saint Nicolas's Day of the hamlet of Dalmerie located on the common neighbor of Joncels.

This old extremely medieval was drawn up proudly in the plain to a few hundred meters in the south-west of the village of Ceilhes opposite current Café of the Lake, and in edge of the way old also called Peyral (D902 secondary road) where still the old sheep-fold of the castle remains, known as " Firm of the Building industry ".

Sources: Charles Bonami, In the high valley of Orb, nine centuries of history (1025-1964). The old castle of Bouloc-lez-Ceilhes in Languedoc. Jurisdiction, lords, the castle . Rodez: Subervie, 1974,70 p.

External bonds

Ceilhes-and-Rocozels on the site of Quid
the official site of the Municipality and the tourist bureau of Ceilhes and Rocozels: www.ceilhes-ville.com
the site of reference on Ceilhes-and-Rocozels: http://www.ceilhes.com

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