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Built on a rocky plateau occupied since Gallo-Roman period, the medieval fortress of Chitry-les-Mines (XIV) forms a quadrilateral whose remains still today the oblong plan and the four towers. To make this set more residential, owners of the seventeenth were laid out on four levels in the north wing west, a main building flanked by two towers and opened a perspective-oriented noon. This residence form, with two wings connected to the towers, a courtyard terrace of the Yonne. These wings are home on their part is, the front door secured initially by a drawbridge and outbuildings in the west wing and a gallery decorated with mythological scenes, decoration commissioned by Nicolas Fouquet at the marriage of a of her nieces to the castle of Chitry.