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Le château en bref
South of Landivy, on the borders of Mayenne, Brittany and Normandy, the Château de Mausson stands on a promontory overlooking the valley of the Airon. The present building was erected in the 15th and 16th centuries on the ruins of an earlier castle destroyed during the Hundred Years' War, at a time when this border region had suffered greatly from fighting. The lordship passed successively to the families de Landivy, de Scépeaux, de Romilley and d'Alba, who retained it until the Revolution. A residential wing and various ruined sections survive, bearing witness to the scale of the former mansion. In the 18th century, a park was laid out around the château; it still contains a large ornamental pond measuring roughly three hundred metres by fifty. The château has been listed as a monument historique since 3 February 1912, making it one of the oldest such protections in the department. It is privately owned.