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Château de la Bréchinie is an 18th-century mansion located in Grassac, Charente, New Aquitaine. It is historically part of the Barony of Marthon and was built in the early eighteenth century, with a chapel blessed in 1726. The estate, sequestered in 1793 as well demigrated, retained architectural elements such as a mansard roof, two protruding pavilions, and a wall of enclosure containing a turret and a dovecot of the sixteenth century.

The current house, surrounded by enclosure walls and related buildings (chapel, orangery, barn), was listed as historical monuments in 1993. Ownership of families Voissagne then Bodard de La Jacopière until the 20th century, it was sold in 1980 to Marie-France and Jean-Luc Schreiner. The interiors, remodeled in the 19th century, conserve pitched floors and a vaulted cellar transformed into a cistern. The castle inspired the novel La Mistresse Servante des Frères Tharaud (1911).

Architecturally, the facade is framed with pavilions and covered with a skylight roof. The dovecote, dating from the 16th century, still has its rotating scale. Together, lined with a stone wall, reflects successive transformations, mixing defensive elements (round towers) and residential elements (19th century orangery).

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