Fenouillet

Fenouillet lies among the rugged hills north of the Pyrenees. Its castle of Saint-Pierre was the principal stronghold of a group of fortified sites and the centre of a viscounty. The Treaty of Corbeil in 1258 settled claims between France and Aragon and brought the viscounty and castle under the French crown. Their mountain position placed Fenouillet in the border country between the two realms.