Château

English translation

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History

Although the château lost some of its character as a result of the transformations undertaken in the 19th century, its essential dispositions remain largely intact. The building presented the appearance of a fortified dwelling in the 13th or 14th century, an appearance which it lost from the 15th century onwards. It is built on two islands surrounded by the Sèvre. On one stands the château. On the other, the remains of the former outbuildings. The primitive building was presumably built on the classical plan of fortifications of the 13th-14th centuries: an irregular quadrilateral whose projecting angles were reinforced by towers. The reconstruction undertaken at the end of the 15th century must have rested on the foundations of this primitive château of which only a few vestiges would remain: the two north and east towers; the north-east outer wall connecting these two towers, at ground level only for the whole and in the basement as well for the two towers. The new building presented a group of buildings forming a slightly irregular parallelogram, with internal courtyard, three round towers at the north, west and south angles, and a square tower at the east angle. The château was pillaged and burned during the Wars of the Vendée. It was reconstructed from 1810, with completion of this restoration in 1837. At that time, the ruins are said to have been demolished to make way for gardens.