Château des Rochers-Sévigné

The château des Rochers-Sévigné, a former Breton residence of Madame de Sévigné, is a 15th-century Gothic manor house located near Vitré in Ille-et-Vilaine, France.

The whole property is bordered by a wooded park whose alleys were all named by Madame de Sévigné, who stayed at the château des Rochers several times after her husband's death.

It was in this residence that she wrote many of her famous letters to her daughter, Françoise de Sévigné, countess of Grignan.

La Haye de Torcé, like Rochers, was under the jurisdiction of the barony of Vitré, and the lordship of Le Pin in the parish of Domalain: a fief that came into the hands of the lords of Sévigné through the marriage of one of them with Marguerite du Pouez.

The land and fiefs of Rochers then belonged to the lords of Mathefelon, who almost successively (from 1295 to 1370) provided three abbesses to the abbey of Saint-Georges de Rennes.

The back of the manor house