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Le château en bref
The Château de Cramahé, in Salles-sur-Mer in Charente-Maritime, occupies a seigneury erected into a fief in 1518 by the Duchess of Longueville for Pierre Chasteigner. The Chasteigner family, who were Protestants, kept the estate until they emigrated after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The old château, in poor condition, was entirely rebuilt from 1753 onwards by the architect Samuel Lemit, a building contractor in Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron, on the orders of its owner Jean-Baptiste Gayot de Mascrany. Passed to his son Joachim-François-Bernard-Paul Gayot in 1764, then to Michel-Augustin Garros (1807), Françoise-Esther de Saint-Estève (1811) and her daughter Marie-Suzanne-Joséphine Harouard de Saint-Sornin (1828), the estate still comprised in 1811 eighteen hectares of vineyards, forty hectares of meadows and marshland, thirty-two hectares of woodland and sixty-nine hectares of arable land. The rear façade of the château bears, carved in wood on the pediment, the coats of arms of the Harouard and Larocque-Latour families. The entrance gateway, its railings and the courtyard have been registered as historic monuments since 23 February 1925.