The history of the Château de la Douve d'Armaillé began on the 2th July 1565 when René Cormier, Count of Fontenelle, decided to buy part of the manor house and farmhouse of the “Douve”. The castle is located on the lands of a former stronghold of the Roche d'Iré. He inherited from the Cormier family and eventually ended up in the Marquis d'Armaillé. After the revolution, in 1793 during the wars of Vendée, the Lords of the Moat, Monsieur and Madame d'Armaillé die. They leave five children including the General Rene Armaillé who was part of the army of Princes, that intended, and he thought so, to save the kingship. His youngest brother, Ambroise Louis Henri of Forest Armaillé becomes owner of the Douve. He marry on the 8th May 1866, Gabrielle de Buisseret-Steebecque of Blarenghien. Relatively penniless, it is thanks to this marriage and the fortune of his wife that he undertakes the construction of the current castle of “La Douve”. Henri d'Armaillé calls on the architect Auguste Bibard for the construction of the castle around 1871-1874. He will be adding a chapel around 1880.The castle of La Douve contains a treasure: Auguste-Medard de la Forest, knight of Armaillé had four boys and five girls. Two girls were arrested with their maid in a farm of “La Douve” which is called Mabouillère. During the rising of the Vendée, this maid had hidden a considerable sum and the silverware belonging to her masters. She was denounced to the Committee of Public Safety who had her arrested and locked up in Angers, in the former convent of Calvary, turned into a prison. Again, some tried in vain to snatch some information on the treasure. The little girl d’Armaillé was then taken from her at the age of three years old, to be entrusted to the jailer, to whom she died of hunger and sorrow. The maid was executed shortly after, the only words she consented to pronounce were these: "When my masters come back, you will tell them that the treasure is hidden in a place where we walk every day."During the second world war, a summer camp of young Parisians stayed permanently at the castle, including many Jewish children who found refuge there. They were never reported, and a few months ago a survivor came back to greet the property that saved her life at the time. At the time, the Nazis occupied the castle of Falloux a few hundred meters away.