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Le château en bref
The Château de la Bermondière stands about four kilometres north of the village of Saint-Julien-du-Terroux, between two arms of the Mayenne. A vassal fief of the Motte de Madré, it acquired the parish seigneury after the fourteenth century. The Mallet family held it for a long time before Pierre-François de Jarasson bought it after 1740 and had it rebuilt between 1735 and 1742 (dates according to the sources), to designs attributed to a brother of the Jesuit Antoine Lavalette. The naturalist Réaumur stayed there as a guest and was named legatee of his friend, and he died there in 1757. Sold by auction in 1763 to Louis-Joseph de Barberé, the estate was looted during the Great Fear, then restored by André de Barberé de Saint-Bomer. At the end of the nineteenth century it belonged to Count Paul du Plessis d'Argentré. The main building, square in plan with rounded corners topped by tall chimneys, opens onto terraced gardens sloping down towards the Mayenne, and it has a chapel.