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The Manor of La Fuye, located in Chinon in Indre-et-Loire, finds its origins in a medieval stronghold linked to Chinon Castle and the Abbaye de Turpenay. Given in the 13th century to the Abbey by Mathieu Anguille, the property sees its current mansion probably built in the 16th century on older remains. The architect Claude de Bottereau, supposed to be its designer, created a Renaissance residence that remained in his family until 1785, when he was sold to Adrien Charles Vallée, a local priest.

In 1793, the mansion passed into the hands of Charles Claude Tenneguy Lebourgoys de la Siverie and his wife Amable de Guéroust Saint-Mars, from Normandy. By alliances and inheritances, the property traverses the centuries: it belongs successively to the family of La Roche (1811-1894), then to Louis Poitevin and Marie Beugnet until 1954. Mrs Carvallo, also owner of Villandry Castle, became its owner before her heirs sold it in 1999. Since 2016, it belongs to its current owners.

The manor house, which was partially classified in the Historical Monuments in 1965 for its facades and roofs, combines defensive elements (mâchicoulis towers, murderous towers) and Renaissance decoration (shelled lucarns, leafy asses). A chapel of the 17th century, now extinct, was once complete. The restorations of the 20th century, like those carried out by François Benjamin around 1970, preserved this architectural testimony.

The site consists of two housing bodies in square, flanked by a turret of polygonal stairways and defensive towers, including a "pipper" head. The ornaments (shells, carved bands) and medieval remains (mâchicoulis) illustrate its evolution between the Middle Ages and the modern era. The missing shield and the gable windows recall its status as seigneurial houses, between residential function and symbolic power.

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