Le Roi du Château

A timeline of the archive

Nine hundred years of building, counted. Every century holds what the register records for it — thin where the sources are thin, heavy where a country rebuilt itself.

  1. V1 record →
  2. VI3 records →
  3. VII8 records →
  4. VIII13 records →
  5. IX38 records →
  6. X143 records →
  7. XI474 records →
  8. XII1,018 records →
  9. XIII1,280 records →
  10. XIV1,296 records →
  11. XV2,189 records →
  12. XVI2,961 records →
  13. XVII3,181 records →
  14. XVIII3,591 records →
  15. XIX3,188 records →
  16. XX953 records →
  17. XXI16 records →

A record dated to two centuries counts in both — a house begun in the 15th century and rebuilt in the 17th belongs to each. The bars therefore add up to more than the number of records, and the tallest bar sets the scale for the rest.

Centuries →