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Le château en bref
The Château de la Chaponnière, at Melleroy (Loiret), occupies the site of a feudal motte surrounded by ditches, which belonged around 1400 to the grand veneur Philippe de Courguilleret. Destroyed during the Hundred Years' War, it is mentioned in 1478 as ‘an enclosed motte surrounded by ditches where there was formerly a castle’; the Courtenay family, owners in the fifteenth century, rebuilt it in 1620. The seventeenth-century main block, with a central projecting bay surmounted by a pediment, is reached by a stone bridge over water-filled moats and flanked by two eighteenth-century pavilions with scale-patterned slate roofs. A private property, visible from the road, it is not open to visitors.