Château des Perrais

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The Château des Perrais, in Parigné-le-Pôlin (Sarthe), is a country house (gentilhommière) built from the fifteenth century onwards. The estate was acquired in 1450 by the de Broc family, through marriage with the Saint-Benoît family; Sébastien de Broc settled there at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The main residence comprises an older wing, an east wing dating from around 1630, a large eighteenth-century main body, and a west pavilion from the late nineteenth century, with three turrets at the rear, including a tower-chapel dated 1633. In the nineteenth century, the Marquis Thibaut de Broc and Berthe Worms de Romilly modernised the house, working with the architect Ernest Sanson and the landscape gardener Achille Duchêne. Occupied from 1946 to 2015 by the Catholic institution Saint-Michel des Perrais, it is today a private residence, partly listed as a monument historique.