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Le château en bref
Also known as the Château de Puyregard, the Château de La Chapelle-Baloue originally belonged to the lords of Dun; its fief, first mentioned at the end of the 15th century, appears to be of earlier origin. Today only the remains of two towers survive. Acquired in 1828 by Jean-Baptiste Beauvais, who restored the dilapidated buildings, the estate passed to his son Jean and then to the Thouvenin and Jautrou families, before Eugène Maxime Paul Blanche acquired it through his marriage to Suzanne Jautrou des Ormeaux. André Blanche (1902-1973) modernised the château and the estate; his sons Denis and Gérard Blanche inherited it from 1976, and the Blanche family remains its owner. A dwelling rebuilt after a fire in 1997, at the entrance to the hamlet, reuses stones and carved elements from the old château (a lintel, a granite corbel).