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The Château des Gaschetières is located in Lailly-en-Val, in the Loiret. The estate was acquired on 30 August 1635 by Guillaume Cornuel, husband of Anne Bigot, who had the château rebuilt around 1643–1645, a dating confirmed by dendrochronology; in 1650 a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary and Saint Anne and a symmetrical residential pavilion were added. The tax farmer general Thoynard de Jouy bought it in 1730, and the Fricon family acquired it in 1836; the latter had it remodelled in the second half of the nineteenth century by the architects Benjamin Ricard and Louis Parent. Built of brick and stone on a regular H-shaped plan, roofed in slate, the château is accompanied by a group of outbuildings: a dovecote, a kennel, stables, a barn in bauge with buttresses, a wrought-iron and glass greenhouse dating from 1867, and moats. Restored, it remains a privately owned property.