Study the urban fortresses of Burgundy means interesting in the relationships between, on the one hand, these buildings and their occupants and, on the other hand, the society in which they are located. A city with a castle isn’t necessarily a castral town. The castle can generate, move or expand a city. Its representation also reflects its place in society. The genesis of the city often has consequences throughout the modern times on relationships between the castle and the city. In wartime, the castle can be the ruin or the salvation for the city. In peacetime, it’s most often a dead weight : it must be maintained, sometimes its garnison must be maintained too. But in the dialectic cities/castles, the second ones are heavily defeated, which takes the form of redeployments, abandonments, or more often destructions of urban castles.
