The Château de Joyeuse Garde is the site of a castle associated with Joyous Gard from Arthurian legend.Caird, Monica (1906). Romantic Cities of Provence. C. Scribner's Sons Its ruins in the town of La Forest-Landerneau in Brittany date to the 6th century.Barker, Edward Harrison (1890). Wayfaring in France. R. Bentley & Son It was listed as a monument historique on 6 October 1975.
The castle is the subject of "Joyeuse Garde", an 1859 poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne.
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