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Le château en bref
Château de la Motte, in Saint-Thurial (Ille-et-Vilaine), occupies the site of a castle motte that was converted into a rectangular building at the end of the Middle Ages. The estate belonged to the Chouan family and then, in the eighteenth century, to the Lohier family. The present château is an 1858 construction that reuses part of the pre-existing buildings, erected by Adolphe Toulon, manager of a lime kiln; quarries greatly altered the site during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Built of schist and rubble stone, partly rendered and roofed in slate, it has been heavily remodelled and was recently renovated. Private property.