Château Grimaldi (Puyricard)

Between 1655 and 1685 the château served as residence of Cardinal Archbishop Girolamo Grimaldi-Cavalleroni[1][2] who had rebuilt the chateau which had been in ruins for 70 years.

The term "palace" for any residence, no matter how large, other than episcopal is not commonly used in Europe for any rural building.

[3] The earlier chateau had been the ancestral seat of the Princes of Baux, from whom it passed to the Archbishops of Puyricard.

[4] During the 17th century the incumbent archbishop Jerome de Grimaldi had the new plans for the restoration drawn up based on the Palazzo Farnese.

Had the building been constructed as a chateau, the roof would have been concealed, or given highly visible prominence in the French Renaissance style.