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Le château en bref
The Manoir de la Petite-Haie is located in Grand-Auverné, in the north of Loire-Atlantique. In the 16th and 17th centuries it replaced the former seigneurial house of the Grande-Haie, the seat of a seigneurie in which a Thibaud de La Haie is known around 1400. A former hunting lodge associated with the Condé de Vioreau and Laval de Châteaubriant families, the estate subsequently passed through many hands, among them the families Girard de Châteauvieux, de Mézangé, Boisgelin de Cucé and Cathelinay de La Mostière. Enclosed by high walls, it comprises two main buildings, a châtelet, a private chapel, a dovecote, a bread oven and outbuildings. Its most remarkable feature is an external staircase surmounted by a loggia. The façades and roofs of the two main buildings, the chapel, the dovecote, the staircase and the loggia have been listed as monuments historiques since 9 November 1984. The manor is privately owned, and a tradition of hunting with hounds (chasse à courre) is maintained there.