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Château de Clisson
The château de Clisson is a former fortress whose remains stand on a granite promontory, above the left bank of the Sèvre Nantaise, in the Loire-Atlantique. Built by the powerful lords of Clisson from the eleventh to the fifteenth century, it protected the border of the duchy of Brittany. The eastern part dates from the fourteenth century, and the rest was built for Francis II of Brittany in the second half of the fifteenth century.
Olivier IV de Clisson, Constable of France and companion of Bertrand Du Guesclin, was the most famous of its lords. Burned in 1793 during the Revolution, then partly restored, the castle keeps a double moat and fortified walls. It is visited with the town of Clisson, of Italian charm.
