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Near Pellevoisin, in the northern Boischaut, the Château du Mée was built in the 15th century by the de Menou family on the foundations of an older fortified house. The family had already been established there in the previous century: Jean de Menou, lord of the estate and captain, was taken prisoner at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356. The rectangular main building rises over two storeys and a roof space; its western façade is flanked by two round crenellated towers linked by a covered wall-walk. The fortress once had five towers, including a hexagonal tower housing the staircase, which was demolished at the beginning of the 18th century during the alterations of the 17th and 18th centuries. A chapel, consecrated in 1697, occupies one of the pavilions. The Menou family kept the estate until 1889, when it was acquired by Count Arthur de La Rochefoucauld. Protected for its façades and roofs since 1980 and restored from the 1970s onward, the château is a private property, visible only from the outside.