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Le château en bref
La Rive, later known as La Chêneraie, is a holiday residence in Sainte-Gemmes-sur-Loire (Maine-et-Loire), whose garden overlooks the Loire. Depicted in 1819 by Jean-Jacques Delusse as a tall, rectangular, three-storey building with five bays, it belonged to François-Joseph Grille, father of the Angevin historian François Grille, until Charles de Brossard, a retired cavalry captain, acquired it in 1853. In the 1860s he transformed it by adding two neo-Gothic pavilions in brick and tuffeau, one dated 1860, whose cornices are decorated with pelicans, a dragon, a lyre and the owner's initials.