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The Château de Beaubigné, located in Fromentières in the department of Mayenne, is a former seigneurial house built at the end of the 15th century. It was enlarged in the early 17th century and restored in the 19th century by architect Jules Dussauze. The latter added commons and designed gardens combining a "French" parterre with box and topiary embroidery, as well as a landscaped park and a vegetable garden with a greenhouse and an orangery. The chapel Saint-Julien-le-Martyr and Saint-Antoine, built in 1444, was equipped for three weekly Masses thanks to the tithes of Méfremont.

The seigneury of Beaubigné, under Ruillé by Fromentières and endowed with high justice, changed hands frequently between the 15th and 18th centuries. Among his lords are the families of Baubigné, Arquenay, Dangennes, and Tertre. In 1784, the Marshal de camp Jean-Baptiste-Hyacinthe-Marie du Tertre sold the estate to Marie-L. de Lapplart, before he passed to the Preaux families and then Vincent de Champorin in the 19th century. The castle, inscribed in the historical monuments in 2002, preserves mutilated shields and a facade adorned with sharp or rounded frontons.

The site dominates the Mayenne Valley, on the road between Château-Gontier and Laval. A mill already existed on the river in the 15th century, and a signal from the staff map was installed at the end of the 19th century. The protected elements include facades, roofs, commons (blangery, orangery, etc.), a decorated painter's workshop, and gardens with their terraces and a "small children's house". The chapel, isolated, housed religious foundations such as Jeanne d'Arquenay's in 1457.

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