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The Château de la Barbée stands on the right bank of the Loir, in Bazouges-sur-le-Loir, in the Sarthe département. It replaced an earlier château dating from the 15th to 17th centuries, whose buildings, now demolished, occupied a terrace to the west of the present residence. In 1379, Jean de Bourbon sold the seigneury to the La Roche-Abilau family; in 1512, Jean de Dureil, lord of La Barbée, fought at Ravenna, and the estate was raised to a barony in 1752 for Marie-Gilles de La Bérardière. Around 1790, the architect Prosper Simon built a new Neoclassical château, which was sold in 1802 to François-Marie-Pierre Roullet de La Bouillerie; around 1824, the Parisian architects Abel Lahure and Adrien-Louis Lusson extended the west façade with two pavilions and a pediment bearing a clock. The main body has two storeys and an attic level beneath roofs with hipped gables. The estate comprises a vaulted chapel, an orangery, outbuildings, a farm, an enclosed kitchen garden, moated courtyards, a wash-house and a wooded park; the whole has been listed as a monument historique since 28 October 1991. It is a privately owned property.