THE CHATEAUX AND BUILDINGS OF THE BARE ROCK DISTRICT

CHÂTEAU MEUTRE
Home of Comte Cyrano de Bergerac.  The royal guests were housed in rooms surrounding the courtyard. To ensure privacy for the royal guests, all servants were housed away from the royal quarters.  Security was provided by guards from the Bare Rock Bastille.  Posted around the outsides of the Château, they were ordered to only let in people
that they recognised.

Dr Guillotin’s prototype execution device was assembled in the courtyard.

THE BARE ROCK BASTILLE
Three miles away from Chateau Meutre.  The governor of the prison is the former musketeer Amorous de Spicable.  The prison is deemed to be escape proof.  Built of bare stone, it is set on high cliffs at the extremity of a headland leading into the sea.  Jagged rocks mean that access to the shingle beach at the foot of the cliffs is impossible.  During exceptionally high tides, the shingle beach is covered.  Even so, each morning a security patrol is made around the cliff tops by Bastille staff.

The Bastille houses some of the most dangerous criminals in France, including political prisoners.  There are also suites of rooms for people who have been temporarily banished from court.

Executions are occasionally carried out at Bare Rock Bastille.  The method is beheading, and these are carried out by Quasimodo with his trusty axe.

CHÂTEAU REVOLUTION
Eight miles from Château Meutre.  Home of the late Count Tumbrels.  Count Tumbrels was a former member of court and very wealthy.  Cardinal Mazarin, believing Tumbrels to be a leader of the revolutionists, banished him from court. Because of his position, wealth, and ill health, Tumbrels was allowed to stay at Chateau Revolution, but forbidden to leave the district.

CHÂTEAU L’AMOUR
Ten miles from Chateau Meutre.  A gift from King Louis XV to his mistress, Madame le Drury.  Essentially a summer residence, the chateau is shut up in the winter and maintained by a skeleton staff.