The Château de Joyeuse Garde is the site of a castle associated with
Joyous Gard
Joyous Gard (French ''Joyeuse Garde'' and other variants) is a castle featured in the Matter of Britain literature of the legend of King Arthur. It was introduced in the 13th-century French Prose Lancelot, Prose ''Lancelot'' as the home and form ...
from
Arthurian legend
The Matter of Britain (; ; ; ) is the body of medieval literature and legendary material associated with Great Britain and Brittany and the legendary kings and heroes associated with it, particularly King Arthur. The 12th-century writer Geoffr ...
.
[Caird, Monica (1906). ''Romantic Cities of Provence.'' C. Scribner's Sons] Its
ruins
Ruins () are the remains of a civilization's architecture. The term refers to formerly intact structures that have fallen into a state of partial or total disrepair over time due to a variety of factors, such as lack of maintenance, deliberate ...
in the town of
La Forest-Landerneau in
Brittany
Brittany ( ) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica in Roman Gaul. It became an Kingdom of Brittany, independent kingdom and then a Duch ...
date to the 6th century.
[Barker, Edward Harrison (1890). ''Wayfaring in France.'' R. Bentley & Son] It was listed as a ''
monument historique
() is a designation given to some national heritage sites in France. It may also refer to the state procedure in France by which national heritage protection is extended to a building, a specific part of a building, a collection of buildings, ...
'' on 6 October 1975.
The castle is the subject of "
Joyeuse Garde", an 1859 poem by
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist and critic. He wrote many plays – all tragedies – and collections of poetry such as '' Poems and Ballads'', and contributed to the Eleve ...
.
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References
Castles in Brittany
Ruined castles in France
Monuments historiques of Finistère
Chateau De Joyeuse Garde
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