Motte de Buron

I am proud to welcome you Buron, France. For those who don't know, my family name was traditionally "Buron" but my grandfather decided to go through the process of legally adding a "Du" to the front of it. I still have cousins in Canada who still go by Buron. Anyways we don't know for 100% sure that Buron in the county of Yronde-et-Buron, France is indeed where our family is from. There is also a Buron in Saint-Contest, France to the North West. The family story is that we did come from a village with a castle and Yronde-et-Buron has it and Saint-Contest does not.

The Castle, Château De Buron, dates back to the 13th century and still seems to be largely farmland in the immediate area. Getting to the ruins of Château De Buron was no easy feat. I have no idea if I went the best way, but after parking the car I had to run through a cow pasteur (stepping carefully) and then run up a very narrow trail through thick shrubs. After coming to the walls of the Château I had, both a trail to the right and left. I choose left, but was greeted with only a small gap. This wasn't exactly the guided tour style place I've frequent with many other stops around Europe. There were signs of crumbling walls all around me. So I crawled through my entrance being very careful not to even slightly touch the walls for fear of causing a collapse. The hill and ruins give an amazing view of the surrounding countryside.

The town itself is full of typical old French gray stone houses. It was actually very cute. The streets are typical old European with barely enough width for a car. In fact, the road we drove over to get close to Château De Buron had a narrow cliff with no railing. There is a picture of it in this post. The town had one small Chapel and a single cemetery. The cemetery, actually seemed closer to the neighboring town of Yronde.

For prosperity we found a link to the Yronde-et-Buron municipal website. It has a good amount of town history. Including the story of a previous "sire" of Buron who was nicknamed "Le Garou" or "The Werewolf." http://www.yronde-et-buron.fr/

Robert, Sire de Buron
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