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The Hall is a room of XIIè from the architectural point of view with large round chapels which were opened in XVIIè. Under the chapel flags of the regiments of Louis XV, flags of XVIII.
Presentation The Hall The Dining Room The Living Room The chapel The Room of the Guards
   

An armour of XVè magnificiently articulated there is exposed. It is a large armour whose hands are entirely articulated and the fingers assembled on leather thin straps, with nine metal plates for each finger. The oldest weapons are those placed in the racks on each side of the door of entry: spades, halberds, guisarmes, let us espontons of XVè and XVIè


Château de Gourdon 1592
 

Halberds, spades and guisarmes. The guisarme is a weapon of the XVII with hooks. The hook was used for désarçonner the enemy, to make it fall from horse and the point was used "to spit it".
On the 5° guisarme of the 1° rack of the small hooks were useful, by bringing out the spade, to tear off the tripe of the enemy.

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