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Le château en bref
The Château de la Ville-Olivier, in Mézières-sur-Couesnon (Ille-et-Vilaine), stands in a wooded valley near the River Couesnon. It has a classic layout: a central residence with a steep roof flanked by two corner pavilions, built of granite and rubble stone under slate, in front of a wrought-iron gate surmounted by a marquis's coronet. The estate belonged to the Crochenne family in 1513, to the Frémont family in 1680, to the Védier family in 1701, and to the Fleuriot family in 1766; in the nineteenth century it passed to the Hay de Bonteville family. Count and Countess d'Abadie sold it to the commune in 1977. The building is now divided into apartments (SCI).