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Le château en bref
The Château du Bois-Cornillé, in Val-d'Izé, belonged to the Cornillé family from 1229, before passing through marriages and successive sales to the Landais, Goulaine, de Schomberg and then again the Goulaine families. It was rebuilt in the 15th century by Pierre Landais, treasurer of the Duchy of Brittany; only an octagonal tower, known as the Gouÿon tower, survives from this medieval period. At the end of the 19th century, the architects Jules and Henri Mellet remodelled the building in the Neo-Gothic style, adding pavilions with raised roofs, machicolations and corbelled turrets. A chapel with a bell tower, built in 1721, housed the hearts of several members of the family. The English-style landscape park was laid out in 1876 by the landscape designers Denis and Eugène Bühler and Édouard André, with an orangery and a French-style formal garden. Long held by the Le Cardinal de Kernier family, of whom Jacques Le Cardinal de Kernier served as mayor of Val-d'Izé for forty-five years, the château is listed as a Monument Historique.
