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Le château en bref
The Château de la Garaye, now in ruins, in Taden (Côtes-d'Armor), was built in the mid-16th century on an estate comprising a house, tenant farms, orchards, ponds and mills, for the Ferré family, then the du Chastel family (from 1556) and the La Moussaye family. In 1617, their descendants sold the estate to Raoul Marot des Alleux, seneschal of Dinan, who had been ennobled by Henry IV for his part in the 1598 plot against the Leaguer Mercœur; the estate was raised to a viscountcy in 1644 and then to a county in 1683. In the 18th century, Count Claude Toussaint Marot de La Garaye (1675-1755) and his wife, who turned from a worldly life of luxury to caring for the poor, founded a hospital near the château. Sold by their heirs in 1778, the building fell into ruin from 1791 onwards. Today, remains survive with carved details from the late 15th and early 16th centuries: window surrounds, sculpted dormers, moulded cornices and a polygonal tower with decorated mullions.