Roger Gate

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Le château en bref

The Roger Gate was one of the four main defensive gateways of the thirteenth-century walls of Fougères, alongside the Rillé, Saint-Léonard and Notre-Dame gates. It controlled access to the Upper Town from the eastern front. First opened at the mouth of the cul-de-sac leading to the present-day Place du Théâtre, near the Montfromery tower, it was rebuilt further south in the first half of the fifteenth century (brought into service around 1444). The former passage, walled up, became a dead end, the "rue Perdue". The gate has since been demolished, at an unknown date; its name survives in that of the street it served, successively rue Brutus (1794), rue Impériale (1807), rue Royale (1816) and then rue Roger.