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The Montcharvin castle guarded the old path from Chambéry to the Echelles, well seated on a high knoll, which was defended by its steep slopes. A large square pollarded tower flanks it. A spiral staircase stands in it. The main facade on the east looks onto a terraced yard, which surrounding walls were fortified with a round tower now ruined. On the ground floor a large window with mullions and transoms lights a room with molded girders in which stands a mantelpiece of magnificent dimensions dating from the fourteenth century. A very important place for the defense of the country, during the Middle Ages, the castle initially belonged to the La Salle family, ancient feudal descent, then during the fifteenth century, to Janus de Duyn, baron de Val d'Isère, viscount de Tarentaise, Master of the horse in Savoy. His daughter, Louise de Duyn, married to a Piedmontese, count Valperga, had no child and made her will in favor of one of her first cousins, Pierre de la Forest, lord de La Barre. Pierre was the Savoy Ambassador in France and one of the four barons who were pallbearers at the funeral of Philippe de Savoie, Duke de Nemours. But in these days, honors did break away from the country manors, and it is in Montcharvin that Huguette de Somont, Pierre's widow, lived when she made her will, on March 10, 1556. Jean de la Forest, their grandson, great military leader and also Ambassador in France, obtained in 1592 letters allowing him to force his men liable to tallage, depending on the seigneury of Montcharvin, to get themselves free "in body as well as in belongings". After him the la Forest kept the castle until the eighteenth century.
The Montcharvin castle guarded the old path from Chambéry to the Echelles, well seated on a high knoll, which was defended by its steep slopes. A large square pollarded tower flanks it. A spiral staircase stands in it. The main facade on the east looks onto a terraced yard, which surrounding walls were fortified with a round tower now ruined. On the ground floor a large window with mullions and transoms lights a room with molded girders in which stands a mantelpiece of magnificent dimensions dating from the fourteenth century. A very important place for the defense of the country, during the Middle Ages, the castle initially belonged to the La Salle family, ancient feudal descent, then during the fifteenth century, to Janus de Duyn, baron de Val d'Isère, viscount de Tarentaise, Master of the horse in Savoy. His daughter, Louise de Duyn, married to a Piedmontese, count Valperga, had no child and made her will in favor of one of her first cousins, Pierre de la Forest, lord de La Barre. Pierre was the Savoy Ambassador in France and one of the four barons who were pallbearers at the funeral of Philippe de Savoie, Duke de Nemours. But in these days, honors did break away from the country manors, and it is in Montcharvin that Huguette de Somont, Pierre's widow, lived when she made her will, on March 10, 1556. Jean de la Forest, their grandson, great military leader and also Ambassador in France, obtained in 1592 letters allowing him to force his men liable to tallage, depending on the seigneury of Montcharvin, to get themselves free "in body as well as in belongings". After him the la Forest kept the castle until the eighteenth century.
The Montcharvin castle guarded the old path from Chambéry to the Echelles, well seated on a high knoll, which was defended by its steep slopes. A large square pollarded tower flanks it. A spiral staircase stands in it. The main facade on the east looks onto a terraced yard, which surrounding walls were fortified with a round tower now ruined. On the ground floor a large window with mullions and transoms lights a room with molded girders in which stands a mantelpiece of magnificent dimensions dating from the fourteenth century. A very important place for the defense of the country, during the Middle Ages, the castle initially belonged to the La Salle family, ancient feudal descent, then during the fifteenth century, to Janus de Duyn, baron de Val d'Isère, viscount de Tarentaise, Master of the horse in Savoy. His daughter, Louise de Duyn, married to a Piedmontese, count Valperga, had no child and made her will in favor of one of her first cousins, Pierre de la Forest, lord de La Barre. Pierre was the Savoy Ambassador in France and one of the four barons who were pallbearers at the funeral of Philippe de Savoie, Duke de Nemours. But in these days, honors did break away from the country manors, and it is in Montcharvin that Huguette de Somont, Pierre's widow, lived when she made her will, on March 10, 1556. Jean de la Forest, their grandson, great military leader and also Ambassador in France, obtained in 1592 letters allowing him to force his men liable to tallage, depending on the seigneury of Montcharvin, to get themselves free "in body as well as in belongings". After him the la Forest kept the castle until the eighteenth century.
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