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Le château en bref
Lozé Castle is located at the locality of Lozé, in La Haie-Traversaine, Mayenne. The estate has been documented since 1209, when the tithes of Lozé were granted to the priory of Berne, though there is no evidence of a castle at that date. Around 1707, Robert Tripier de la Fresnaye settled there, and his descendant Pierre-Gabriel-Armand Tripier had the main residence built, completed in 1745; in 1766, the latter wrote a memoir on the improvement of livestock in the Bas-Maine. Sequestered during the Revolution, the estate was recovered by the family; in the 19th century, Gabriel Tripier de Lozé, deputy in 1849, contributed to the founding of the commune, created in 1864. In 1871, an orphanage run by the Daughters of Charity was established there. The residence, facing south, is built of rubble stone covered with render under a slate roof, and features a symmetrical central body of five bays over two storeys, flanked by short wings, and a square staircase tower at the rear; the door bears the motto "SAT MORITURO". The park includes radiating avenues, an orangery, stables, outbuildings and a dovecote. No protection under the Monuments historiques designation has been identified. It is privately owned.
