page_title: Château de Fontenoy-le-Château
section_title: Dismantling
hierarchical_section_title: Château de Fontenoy-le-Château / History / Dismantling
caption_attribution_description: Fontenoy-le-Château, tour ronde
context_page_description: The Château de Fontenoy-le-Château is a ruined castle located in the commune of Fontenoy-le-Château in the Vosges département of north-eastern France.
  It held a defensive role from the beginning of the 10th century until its partial destruction in 1635, during the Thirty Years' War.
context_section_description: The castle was dismantled in the 17th century.
  The house was sporadically inhabited until the French Revolution. But from 1750, due to the intensive construction of the village of Fontenoy, the ramparts were dismantled and their stones used to build houses.
  In 1784, Marc Antoine de Voyer described the castle thus:
  « (the fortress) still has its walls and his doors, some towers of the outer works have been ruined… and one can still see on the chimneys of the castle: J'aime qui m'aime, vive Crouy (I like who likes me, long live Crouy). »
  The keep was sold as biens nationaux (national property), «for its materials». The stone facing has almost completely disappeared; the destabilized sections of wall were ruined, the terraces sold, levelled, and transformed into vegetable gardens.
  During the 19th century the dismantling of the walls was complete; the stones were used to build the town hall. Finally, to prevent the hazards of collapse, some walls were even blown up with explosives.
  During the 1930s, Mr Louis Olivier complained at the inescapable disappearance of the keep and of the ruins that «nobody came even to maintain».
caption: The round tower
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