Murals, Keep, Chateau de Vincennes, Ile de France, France

Murals painted by Monseigneur Boulogne, confessor of Napoleon I, imprisoned on his orders in this room in the Keep or donjon of the Chateau de Vincennes, Ile de France, France. This room may also be where the Comte de Mirabeau, 1749-1791, was imprisoned and wrote Des lettres de cachet et des prisons d'Etat against the abuses of the royal warrant. The Keep is 50m high, built 1337-73, the highest fortified medieval building in Europe. It has a square plan 16x16m with a square room on each floor with walls 3m thick, with a turret on each corner. The Chateau was originally built in 1150 as a hunting lodge for Louis VII, with a donjon added in the 14th century, walls in the 15th and further extended in the 17th century. It was an important royal palace until the 18th century. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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13427588

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45107414

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5616px x 3744px (6.0MB)

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Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans

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Photograph by Manuel Cohen