Ninety-Three Chapter 44 - A Provincial Bastille

In which the ancient forest of Fougères shelters the solemn remains of La Tourgue, a formidable yet crumbling tower beset by the shadows of history and the passage of time. Within its rugged walls lie grim relics of medieval cruelty and a curious fusion of stern martial architecture and delicate seventeenth-century refinement, standing as a silent sentinel over a landscape marked by both nature and human endeavour.