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Le château en bref
The Gaudinières manor stands in Bonchamp-lès-Laval, close to the hamlet from which it takes its name and a few hundred metres from the boundary with Forcé. Listed by the Inventaire général, it dates for the most part from the seventeenth century. At the beginning of that century, the Hervé family had a substantial residence built, flanked by two side pavilions, to which a square tower is attached at the rear. In 1657, Barbe Hervé completed the ensemble with a chapel with a double gable, about eight metres long, adorned with statuettes. The estate then changed hands several times between the Hervé, Douet and Aubert families. The site's history is not limited to seigneurial life: Les Gaudinières was also a centre of pottery production, active from the sixteenth century and still so at the end of the eighteenth. Outbuildings and farm buildings today complete this rural manor, characteristic of the area around Laval.