Château de Lauvergnac, Heritage château in La Turballe, France

Château de Lauvergnac is a manor in La Turballe, built mainly in the 19th century in the troubadour style for Count de Geloës d'Elsloo. Its light beige stone facade has tall rectangular windows with dark panes under a steep grey slate roof with stone chimneys. A glazed gallery faces the park, and a 16th-century Renaissance pavilion survives. A long white tent with clear plastic panels stands along the base of the facade.

The seigneurie de Lauvergnac is attested from 1395 with rights of low and middle justice. In 1463 the hébergement entered the patrimony of Pierre Le Pennec, ennobled in 1433 by Duke Jean V of Brittany for service at the siege of Pouancé. Sold in 1673 to Pierre de La Haye and in 1749 to Jacques Anne de La Bourdonnaye, it passed by marriage to the Le Pourceau de Mondoret in 1773, then in 1855 to the Geloes d'Elsloo family, who gave the building its present form and kept it until 2005.

The name Lauvergnac comes from Breton for "region where alders grow". The seigneurie of that name is attested from 1395 with rights of low and middle justice. The private chapel is dedicated to Sainte-Barbe, rebuilt in the 19th century with stained glass and a slender spire.

The château stands in La Turballe, about 20 km from Saint-Nazaire and 80 km from Nantes, near the Atlantic coast. The 19th-century glass gallery faces the park, and the white tent structure with clear panels runs along the base of the facade. The private chapel of Sainte-Barbe, rebuilt by the Geloes d'Elsloo family, has stained-glass windows and a slender spire.

The château keeps a Renaissance pavilion from the second half of the 16th century, older than the 19th-century troubadour rebuilding around it. The adjoining main building is decorated with lead gargoyles shaped like animals, among them a monkey, a crocodile and a salamander.