On the left bank of the Gardon, two kilometres upstream to the Pont-du-Gard
, Saint-Privat's castle was built in the place of a gallo-Roman villa. One arrives there by a narrow valley. It was formerly an almost impregnable, accessible(approachable) fortress only on horseback by a bend in the hill.
In 1564, king Charles IX, accompanied with his mother Catherine de Médicis, with his brother Henri III and with Henri de Navarre (future Henri IV) , was received luxuriously in Saint-Privat by Jean Faret and his suzerain the viscount of Uzès
, which(who) organized in the honor of the festivities under the arcs of Pont-du-Gard. Then the castle became fortified town of the Protestants. In the said room the Seers were held the first meetings of the reformed religion.
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In 1629, in the room of the Peace, Richelieu signed Alais's peace. In 1876, Faret sold Saint-Privat to Thomas Calderon, descendant of the famous Spanish dramatic author. Jacques Rouché, director of the Opera of Paris, acquired him(it) in 1916. Of the romantic park in French drawn by Jacques Rouché, where one can admire a nymphée, two orangeries, statues, vases and fountains in a standing park of hundred-years-old trees.
Having lasted the visit 1. 15. No guest is authorized to penetrate into the domain all on one's own : on foot, in bicycle, on horseback , in car... Information / visit with the Office of Tourism of Pont-du-Gard. For the package tours, visits on meeting all year except winter month.
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