The commune of Les Trois-Moutiers in the French Vienne department is home to the Château de la Mothe-Chandeniers, a castle. The original name of the castle, Motte Bauçay or Baussay, dates to the thirteenth century. The Bauçay family, the lords of Loudun, once made the castle their fortress. The English captured the Motte Baussay multiple times during the Hundred Years War, and it was completely destroyed during the French Revolution. Wealthy merchant François Hennecart purchased it in 1809, then in 1857 he sold it to Baron Joseph Lejeune. The majority of the structures of the castle, meanwhile, were damaged by fire in 1932, and the castle was thereafter abandoned. A French startup set up a crowdfunding campaign website in December 2017, and 27,190 people who had to donate at least €50 apiece joined the cause to raise €1,600,000 to buy the castle with the intention of preserving it. In his book Green urbex: Le monde sans nous, the French photographer Roman Veillon did a project on the castle
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