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Le château en bref
At Sacé, north of Laval, the Château de la Juvardière, which the Inventaire calls la Juvaudière, stands on a fief first mentioned in 1194. The Vaux family held the seigneury from the mid-XVe century, and by 1619 the site comprised a manor house enclosed by walls. The estate then passed in turn to the Le Vayer, du Bellay, de la Haie de Bellegonde and d'Ozouville families. Henri-Marie-René d'Ozouville had the residence entirely rebuilt in 1871–1872, in the Neo-Gothic style then fashionable. The present château has an L-shaped plan. Its walls of rendered rubblestone rest on a granite plinth. Three polygonal towers with steep pointed roofs and an entrance pavilion give the building its silhouette, while brick turrets, limestone decoration, trilobed openings and elaborately worked gables enrich the façades. The whole, together with outbuildings and a park, remains a privately owned property.