Château de Vaulogé

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Château de Vaulogé lies in Fercé-sur-Sarthe, in the Sarthe département. The manor house was built in the early fifteenth century by Jean III de Vaulogé, whose lordship had held the rights of high, middle and low justice since 1462. The rectangular main body is flanked by two large pepper-pot-roofed towers and access turrets. The complex, surrounded by a moat, also includes a former square prison and two chapels. The chapel of Saint-Roch, restored in 1691, remained a place of pilgrimage in the nineteenth century. In 1793 the estate passed to Henri-Samuel Picot de Pontaubray. In 1831, Henri-Jean-Baptiste Picot commissioned the architect Delarue to add a neo-Gothic wing in the Troubadour style, featuring an armorial dormer, windows with geometric tracery, a forked entrance staircase and balconies, and the chapel of Saint-Henri was blessed in 1832. Listed as a monument historique, the château is now run as guest rooms (chambres d'hôtes): five bedrooms, reception rooms, grounds and a swimming pool, with meals available by reservation and private events.