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Le château en bref
Le Plessis-Buret, located about 1.8 km south of the village of Sainte-Gemmes-le-Robert, is today a farm that retains the framework of a former fortified stronghold. A certain Colet Buret held the fief there in 1312. During the Hundred Years' War, the fortress fell into English hands and was returned only at the close of the negotiations of 1364–1365, including the Treaty of Sablé. The Hérisson family were lords of the estate from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, before the families of Laval and then Champagne. Most of the buildings visible today date from a sixteenth-century reconstruction, but by 1649 the château and its fortifications were already described as ruined. The estate was awarded in 1686 to Laurent de Berthemet, then passed in 1705 to the de La Porte family. The site is organised around a square courtyard closed on three sides and surrounded by moats; a tower and a vaulted passageway inherited from the defensive structure can still be seen there, along with a pointed-arch doorway and a former great hall with lancet windows.