Dortan

==History==

==History==

This area was settled in the first century AD by the [[Sequani]], a [[Gallic people]]. It was on a route used by the Romans and by the seventh century, the [[Condat Abbey|Abbaye de Saint-Claude]] had been established nearby and the area was evangelized. During the [[Manorialism|feudal period]] in the ninth century, the counts were Lambert and Geoffroy de Dortenc, and twenty generations of these seignieres followed.{{cite web |url=http://www.dortan.fr/bienvenue/histoire-1-4.htm |title=D'hier à aujourd'hui |date=7 February 2017 |work=Dortan, commune de l'Ain |language=fr |access-date=28 March 2019 |archive-date=29 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329112100/http://www.dortan.fr/bienvenue/histoire-1-4.htm |url-status=live }} The Château de Dortan was built in the fifteenth century as a replacement for the original twelfth century building. It was attacked on many occasions, including by [[Cardinal Richelieu]] in 1637.{{cite book |title=Mémoires du cardinal de Richelieu, sur le règne de Louis XIII |author=Armand Jean du Plessis duc de Richelieu |year=1823 |publisher=Foucault |page=422 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jr45AQAAMAAJ |access-date=23 September 2020 |archive-date=21 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230821194720/https://books.google.com/books?id=jr45AQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }} The last of the de Dortenc lineage was Jean-François de Dortenc, who died in 1708. He had committed various misdeeds and his successor sold the château to Pierre Gaulthier, adviser and secretary of [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]]. Today the château is in private ownership and is included in the list of [[Monument historique]]s.

This area was settled in the first century AD by the [[Sequani]], a [[Gallic people]]. It was on a route used by the Romans and by the seventh century, the [[Condat Abbey|Abbaye de Saint-Claude]] had been established nearby and the area was evangelized. During the [[Manorialism|feudal period]] in the ninth century, the counts were Lambert and Geoffroy de Dortenc, and twenty generations of these seignieres followed.{{cite web |url=http://www.dortan.fr/bienvenue/histoire-1-4.htm |title=D'hier à aujourd'hui |date=7 February 2017 |work=Dortan, commune de l'Ain |language=fr |access-date=28 March 2019 |archive-date=29 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329112100/http://www.dortan.fr/bienvenue/histoire-1-4.htm |url-status=live }} The Château de Dortan was built in the fifteenth century as a replacement for the original twelfth century building. It was attacked on many occasions, including by [[Cardinal Richelieu]] in 1637.{{cite book |title=Mémoires du cardinal de Richelieu, sur le règne de Louis XIII |author=Armand Jean du Plessis duc de Richelieu |year=1823 |publisher=Foucault |page=422 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jr45AQAAMAAJ |access-date=23 September 2020 |archive-date=21 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230821194720/https://books.google.com/books?id=jr45AQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }} The last of the de Dortenc lineage was Jean-François de Dortenc, who died in 1708. He had committed various misdeeds and his successor sold the château to Pierre Gaulthier, adviser and secretary of [[Louis XIV]]. Today the château is in private ownership and is included in the list of [[Monument historique]]s.

===1944 massacre===

===1944 massacre===