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Le château en bref
The Château de la Vallée, in Betton (Ille-et-Vilaine), was commissioned in 1858 by Paul de Torquat, former mayor of Betton, from the Rennes-based architect Aristide Tourneux. In the neo-Louis XIII style, inspired by models from the late Renaissance, it is built of brick, limestone and dressed stone under a slate roof, on a symmetrical plan of seven bays with a central body, lateral pavilions, circular turrets and a polygonal projecting bay on the north side. An English-style landscape park was laid out. Sold to the Huchet family in 1918, it passed in 1941 to the newspaper Ouest-Éclair (holiday camp), then housed a functional rehabilitation centre; it was converted into a coworking space in 2013.