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Le château en bref
The Château de la Seilleraye stands in Carquefou, north-east of Nantes. A former seigneury known as Kerarigo, the estate was owned by Jean du Houx in 1447 and passed to the d'Harouys family in 1540. The present château was rebuilt from 1671 for Guillaume d'Harouys, to plans attributed to the Parisian architect Delahaye (the city's records cite Jacques Caris), and was completed after 1730 by the marquis de Becdelièvre. The marquise de Sévigné stayed here. 18th-century panelling concealed 17th-century decorative paintings, which were rediscovered in the 1990s; the chapel retains a stained-glass window dated 1833. The park was redesigned around 1816. Occupied by the German army and requisitioned in 1943 as a hospital facility, the château was converted in 2011 into some twenty apartments. The château, its outbuildings, the gateway and the railings have been listed as historic monuments since 1994, and the park and its garden structures are registered as historic monuments.