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The Manor House of Longfugeres, located 3.7 km north of Torcé-Viviers-en-Charnie (Mayenne), finds its first mentions under the name Longafilgaria in Carolingian acts. In 752, Gauziolène gave him in a precarious way to Vulsing, then in 799, Francon gave him to Germond. A precept of 832 under Louis le Pieux confirms its existence in the form Felcari a. These medieval texts suggest that it could be Longuefugères or its sartho-like.

As early as the 12th century, the estate belonged to the abbey of Évron and became the centre of a fief. The family of Bouillé, ecclesiastical, makes it an almost hereditary property. In the 16th century, one of them built a Renaissance home, adorned with their weapons and two characters blowing in binious. The cross-sectional windows, connected by mouldings to the pediment windows, as well as two inner spur chimneys (today mutilated), testify to this style.

The manor house welcomes religious personalities: Jean de Bouillé, Prior of Torcé (1533–36), receives Lancelot de Vassé and René de Saint-François. Later, Claude de Bouillé (1588), lieutenant under the Duke of Longueville, and Éléonor de Bouillé (prieur from 1653 to 1670) resided there. The chapel, dedicated to Notre-Dame, was endowed by Jean Pelois, but its ornaments were transferred to the abbey of Évron in 1722, creating a conflict with the parish priest of Torcé.

Sold as a national property on 24 March 1791 for 5,400 pounds, the mansion preserved in the 19th century a painting painted on the haze of its fireplace, noted by Abbé Angot. Its inscription in historical monuments in 1985 protects this testimony of the renaissance architecture of Mayen, linked to local ecclesiastical history.

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