Ruins of the 11th-century Rochemaure castle on an outcrop of black basalt prisms near Montelimar in the Vivarais/Ardeche range. After a sketch by Arnault Eloi Gautier D’Agoty in Barthelemy Faujas de Saint-Fond's Recherches sur les volcans eteints, 1778. Chateau de Rochemaure a une lieue de Montelimar dans le Vivarais. Copperplate engraving by Giuseppe Dall'Acqua from Scipion Breislak’s Traite sur la Structure Exterieure du Globe, Treatise on the Exterior Structure of the Globe, Jean-Pierre Giegler, Milan, 1822.

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