Brégnier-cordon

The current principal building dates from the XX century, but the fortifications go back to XIV century.

The castle was the theatre of a fact various implying a young seminarist of the village of Brangues, Antoine Berthet, engaged in 1826 by the count of Cordon like tutor of his children. Berthet would have allured the young person Henriette de Cordon, which would have caused its reference. Persuaded for its part that its former mistress, the marry of the mayor of Brangues, is with the origin of its dismissal, it makes fire on it in the church of Brangues. Decree and condemned to death, it was carried out in Grenoble in 1828.

It is allowed that Stendhal, familiar of the courts and the legal affairs, is inspired by this fact various to write its novel the Red and the Black.

The castle of Cordon is a whole of ruins of a feudal castle located on the commune of Brégnier-Cordon, in the department of the Ain.
Mandement of Cord is one of oldest of Bugey. It was made by it nomination by the Emperor at the House of Savoy of the XI century which made infeodation with vassal of it. Since then, the castle of Cordon always remained in possession of this family, one of oldest of Savoy.
Ideally located on a height dominating the Rhone, it was used as watchtower with the steps of Savoy. It was confiscated in 1434 by Amédée VIII, duke of Savoy, in Aynard II of Cord, which had taken the weapons against its suzerain. The castle of Cord was dismantled and the Cord private of the title of lord of Cord. The Cord, after having recovered the seigniory of Cord and all justice, resided then at the castle of the Bar.

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