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Le château en bref
The Augustins estate is located in Rue, in the Glâne district of Fribourg, on the bank of a watercourse that once powered a mill. According to the Fribourg Region, the de Maillardoz family is said to have had a country house built there from the 16th century, which gave rise to the present Ferme des Augustins; the farm buildings were completed in 1777. In the mid-19th century, Marie-Laure Maublanc de Chiseuil, wife of Marquis Jules de Maillardoz, had a Neo-Palladian country house erected, and then, in 1864, a Neo-Gothic chapel. The estate served as the family's summer residence, then as a residence for religious communities and as a girls' boarding school; during the Second World War it housed refugees from Alsace and Lorraine. As a private property, it is stop no. 9 on the Rue historical trail but is not open to visitors.