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The Château des Rochers-Sévigné, near Vitré, is a fifteenth-century Gothic manor house built on a rocky hill by the ancestors of Henri de Sévigné, following an L-shaped plan flanked by two towers. The seigneury of Les Rochers passed to the Sévigné family in 1410, upon the marriage of Anne de Mathefelon to Guillaume III de Sévigné. Madame de Sévigné stayed there regularly after the death of her husband, and she composed many of her celebrated letters addressed to her daughter there; in 1671 she had an octagonal chapel built. Eighteenth-century stables and outbuildings complete the ensemble, as does a semicircular wall at the bottom of the garden, which produces a remarkable acoustic effect. The property left the Sévigné family at the beginning of the eighteenth century. After partial listings in 1942 and 1944, the château has been listed as a monument historique since 20 March 1995. It today houses the municipal museum devoted to Madame de Sévigné.