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Cléron (25330) - Doubs - Franche-Comté - France Location: 25 km South of Besançon |
A BIT OF HISTORY
Following a major victory between Doubs and Drugeon, Charles le Chauve offered his Charlemagne grandfather's silver bugle to his bravest warrior: "Sound this bugle as loudly as you can: all the land that hears you, will be yours". Thus, in this way, the young hero became the first Lord of ClZron. Doubtless a legend, for Cléron has several: but does it not suit such a noble building, whose harmonious towers have been reflected in the mirror of the Loue, since the Middle Ages?
Pierre, Adonat and Guy de ClZron were knights from the second Crusade, their families lived in Cléron for 10 generations, however in 1691, Marie de Cléron sold the castle to the Terriers, a powerful family of noblesse de robe. How strange that Nicolas-Joseph Terrier wrote, in the shadow of the Folle (Mad) tower, the first biography of the Mandrins, when the castle was built in order to protect merchants from adventurers?
