Keep

The imposing Keep in the Vincennes Woods, completed about 1330, served both as a watch tower and as living quarters. Standing 52m/170ft high, with five storys, it has walls 3m/10ft thick, further reinforced by four round corner towers, a circuit of outer walls, a wall-walk and a moat. The cells which once housed prisoners have since 1934 been occupied by a museum.

On the ground floor are the kitchen and store- rooms, on the first floor reception rooms and a business room, on the second the king's bedroom and the chapel, on the third the apartments of the royal family and the treasury, on the fourth rooms for members of the household and on the fifth the armory. From the roof terraces there are fantastic panoramic views.