Thévalles Castle

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Le château en bref

Thévalles Castle is located in Chémeré-le-Roi, in the Mayenne department, on the banks of the Erve and about a kilometre and a half from the town centre. The castle estate brings together a manor house, a chapel, a fortified front facing east that descends to the river, two sixteenth-century artillery towers, a press house, a park enclosed by walls and a long wooded avenue. The core of the castle dates back to the fifteenth century; it was supplemented in the following century by the artillery works, then altered in the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries. Local tradition traces the site to an earlier fortification and reports a siege in 1428, facts that official records do not confirm. In the nineteenth century, the Marquis de La Rochelambert, owner of Thévalles, entered into partnership in 1829 with Pierre-Adolphe Pelletreau for a papermaking venture in Laval. The estate has been listed as a monument historique since 26 January 2023: the castle's façades and roofs, the chapel, the fortified front, the artillery towers, the park, the wall, the press house and the avenue. It remains privately owned.