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Le château de Roquetaillade se situe à Mazères, dans le département français de la Gironde. Les ruines du château vieux et le château neuf avec sa chapelle sont classés monuments historiques le 12 octobre 1976.
Le château de Roquetaillade est dans la même famille depuis 700 ans. Il ouvre au public en 1956. Il est constitué de deux châteaux forts, l'un datant du XIe siècle et l'autre du XIVe siècle, se trouvant dans la même enceinte. Il est sauvé par Viollet-le-Duc au XIXe siècle, qui y entreprend également d'importants travaux de décoration et de création de mobilier. Le parc de Roquetaillade comprend les vestiges de l'enceinte médiévale avec la barbacane, le ruisseau du Pesquey et ses berges, le chalet XIXe et le pigeonnier du Crampet, qui fait partie de l'Ecomusée de la Bazadaise.
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France is affectionately referred to as "the Hexagon" for its overall shape.French history goes back to the Gauls, a Celtic tribe which inhabited the area circa 300BC until being conquered by Julius Caesar.The Franks were the first tribe to adopt Catholic Christianity after the Roman Empire collapsed. France became an independent location in the Treaty of Verdun in (843 AD), which divided up Charlemagne's Carolingian Empire into several portions.The French monarchy reached its zenith during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King, who stood for seventy-two years as the Monarch of all Monarchs. His palace of Versailles and its Hall of Mirrors are a splendid treasure-trove of Baroque art.The French Revolution ended the rule of the monarchy with the motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity!" On July 14th, 1789 angry mobs stormed La Bastille prison and began the Revolution in which Louis XVI, his wife Marie-Antoinette and thousands of others met the guillotine.One decade after the revolution, Napolean Bonaparte seized control of the Republic and named himself Emperor. His armies conquered most of Europe and his Napoleonic Code became a lasting legal foundation for concepts of personal status and property.During the period of colonization France controlled the largest empire in the world, second only to Britain.France is one of the founding members of the European Union and the United Nations, as well as one of the nuclear armed nations of the world.Text by Steve Smith.
