Château de la Cour des Prés, Renaissance castle in Rumigny, France.

Château de la Cour des Prés is a 16th-century fortified house at the edge of Rumigny, between the road to Champlin and the Aube stream. Its light grey and tan stone walls are flanked by two round towers with dark conical roofs; the north tower keeps loopholes, including one for a culverin. The oldest rooms, with large fireplaces, lie to the north, and the inner courtyard is fed by the Aube moat.

Built in the first half of the 16th century by Louis Martin, a master of forges from Signy-le-Petit, the fortified house was encouraged by King Francis I as a second line of defence along the Meuse against Charles V. In 1643 the future victor of Rocroi, the Duke of Enghien, slept here and was joined by Jean de Gassion. Sold in 1789 to notary Jean-Baptiste Piette, it lost its keep and south tower, and part of the buildings was destroyed in 1918.

The name Cour des Prés was reportedly given by a contemporary of Francis I. The castle passed on 2 October 1789 to Jean-Baptiste Piette, a royal notary and lawyer at the ducal bailiwick of Rumigny, who became mayor the following year and sat in the Convention from June 1793. His grandson, the prehistorian Édouard Piette, kept a study in the southern part and died here.

The property is private and still occupied by Édouard Piette's descendants, who have set up guest rooms. Visits and concerts are organised each summer; the moats are fed by the Aube stream, which flows between the castle and the road to Champlin.

The north tower keeps a loophole for a culverin, a type of small cannon, while the rest of the house has ordinary windows. A stone cornice marks where the circular keep and the old south tower once joined the wall. The keep has since vanished, and the south tower was rebuilt with stones from Rumigny's Saint-Pierre priory, destroyed in 1792.