In February 1458 the year of the letters of King Charles VII of France François de Vendel Authority granted, Sir, permission to strengthen his "Hostel" from the Ebaupinaye. He used this authorization to build the fortified house, typical of medieval architecture of the fifteenth century warrior.
The Ebaupinaye was inhabited until the Revolution of 1793 when she was sacked. Then the frames and floors were devoured by fire during the Vendée wars. But the main work, built of pink granite with lime and sand, maintains a remarkable stature.
This square medieval fortress, surrounded by a moat, spanned by a bridge marking the site of an old drawbridge, flanked on the corners of 4 towers, and a fifth on the main curtain. A high crenellated parapet resting on an elegant belt of battlements crowning the top of the towers and curtains all around, and imparts a warlike character, full of charm. Above rise the gears wearing the frames, with their large lattice windows. Other mullioned windows are pierced in the curtains, mainly those of the facade. But the twists and access have only discovered a few narrow openings made for shooting.
The crest of Vendel, carved above one of the windows on the facade, the building reflects the fifteenth century, since Ebaupinaye had ceased to belong to the next century.
Source: ebaupinaye.com
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