La Roche-Guyon
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La Roche-Guyon is a commune of the Val-d'Oise département in France. The commune grew around the Château de La Roche-Guyon, upon which historically it depended for its existence. The commune's population in 1999 was 550.
The Château de La Roche-Guyon was initially built in the 12th century and held by the Liancourt family. The domain of La Roche-Guyon came to the La Rochefoucauld family in 1669, with the marriage of Charlotte de Plessis Liancourt with François VII de La Rochefoucauld. The Château retained its medieval aspect of a fortress, with its moat and towers and cramped, dark living apartments. The Château was largely extended in the 18th century.
When Turgot, the minister of Louis XVI failed in his schemes for fundamental reforms in 1776, he retired to the Château briefly, as the guest of Louise Elisabeth Nicole de La Rochefoucauld, duchesse d'Enville.
The castle was used as a setting for the medieval segment of a famous Franco-Belgian graphic novel on time travel: Le Piège diabolique (The Diabolical Trap) of the Blake and Mortimer series by Edgar Pierre Jacobs. German Marshal Erwin Rommel (1891-1944) defended Normandy against the Allies in World War II from a bunker located here.
La Roche-Guyon was the birthplace of François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt (1747-1827)
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