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The Château de la Boissière (or Laboissière) is a maison de maître dating from the last quarter of the 17th century, located on Place du Général-de-Gaulle in Fontenay-aux-Roses (Hauts-de-Seine). Denis Thierry, bookseller-publisher of La Fontaine's *Fables*, bought the land in 1692 and had the house built in 1698. The plan is regular and the elevation ordered: a raised ground floor, a full storey and an attic storey. The walls are of rendered rubble stone, the roof is covered in flat tiles, and it has a roof with long, broken pitches. A masonry staircase, with returns and a light well, was built dans-œuvre. The decoration includes sculpted putti in the tympanum and a garden gate bearing the arms of Denis Thierry, accompanied by a town rat and a country rat, an allusion to La Fontaine's fable. Around 1960, the property lost its park, on which a large housing estate was built. The château and its outbuildings have been partially listed as a monument historique since 7 April 1956.