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The Château du Boschet, in Bourg-des-Comptes, was built from 1660 to 1680 by Pierre de Lescouët, Viscount of Boschet, on the site of an older manor house, within a bend of the Vilaine. The main body, topped with a mansard roof and flanked by four square towers, contains a 17th-century chapel. The estate retains French formal gardens, probably designed by followers of André Le Nôtre, which have earned it the nickname ‘Breton Versailles’. Elevated to a viscountcy by Henri IV for Auffrey de Lescoët, president of the Chamber of Accounts of Brittany, the estate subsequently passed to the Magon, Le Fer de La Gervinais and Brossay Saint-Marc families (including Cardinal Godefroy Brossay-Saint-Marc), before being acquired by the Legeard de La Diriays family in 1883. The whole has been listed as a monument historique since 2011.