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La Fougeraie Castle, also known as the Château Wittouck, is a residence in Uccle situated on the edge of the Forest of Soignes, on the Drève de Lorraine. A property already on the site was bought in 1910 by the industrialist Paul Wittouck, who had a new residence built around 1911, entrusted to the Parisian architects Louis Süe and Paul Huillard; the engineer L. Bogaerts and the decorator Gustave Louis Jaulmes also took part in the works, the latter signing a Neo-Pompeian ceiling. The symmetrical plan with its monumental portico, the very high overhanging roofs, the large windows and the use of reinforced concrete anticipate Art Deco. In Brussels, the château stands out for a rare feature: it still belongs to the family that had it built, the Wittouck family. During the Second World War, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands set up his headquarters there in the autumn of 1944.