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Le château en bref
The Château de la Couronnerie, in Carquefou (Loire-Atlantique), is recorded as early as 1398, when the estate belonged to Guillaume de Couppegorge. In 1656, Guillaume Fresneau built a château there and founded a chapel in 1660. The boundary wall and the ‘Tour des Ifs’ survive from this period. Partly destroyed, it was rebuilt in 1852–1854 by Louis-Maurice Avrouin-Foulon, mayor from 1865 to 1878: a central block flanked by Louis XIII-style pavilions. His son added the crenellated Tour Saint-Jacques (1884–1885), overlooking the Erdre, which initially housed a photographic laboratory. The landscape designer Antoine Noisette laid out the park in 1860, with giant sequoias, Atlas cedars and ancient yews.