Domaine de la Bourdaisière

English translation

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History

This castle was, in the 13th and 14th centuries, a fortress whose ruins were used, in the 16th century, for its reconstruction in 1520. Gabrielle d'Estrées and Henri IV were received there in 1598. The duc de Choiseul had the castle partially demolished and used the materials at Chanteloup. Sold as national property to a merchant of Morlaix, the ruins and estate were acquired under the Restoration by Baron Angellier who had the castle reconstructed. The building comprises a main structure, built entirely under the Restoration. Returning at a right angle to the north, a wing is constituted by three contiguous buildings which belonged to the 16th-century castle. To the west of the castle remain the outbuildings of the late 16th or early 17th century. They comprise two perpendicular wings. To the east, beyond a bridge crossing the moat, a monumental door opened in a colonnade and surmounted by an edifice crowned by a pediment, gives access to the park. To the west of the terrace, hollowed out of the rock, stands the old 16th-century chapel. Documented interventions by landscape architect Edouard André and his son René-Edouard André.