Château de Favières

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Le château en bref

The Château de Favières, in Mosnac (Charente-Maritime), belonged in the mid-16th century to the La Mothe-Fouquet family, before passing in the early 17th century to Pierre de Foix, engineer to the king, and Jean de Saint-Mauris, whose family kept it for about a century. Having passed around 1715 to Luc Bellanger after a complex inheritance lawsuit settled by agreement in 1717, it fell in 1769 to Jean-Antoine de Brossard, who died there in 1779, and then to his nephew, who lived there until his death in 1860. Built in the first half of the 17th century, the château consists of a large main building flanked by two large slate-roofed pavilions, one of which was altered at the end of the 19th century, together with a cylindrical tower, a square bartizan on corbels and extensive outbuildings; park walls with pyramidal towers surround the estate. Since the sculptor and ceramicist Catherine Mathieu settled there, the château has offered guest rooms and a holiday cottage (gîte), as well as an art centre open from June to August, presenting contemporary works and cultural events.