2014 Regional Heritage and Mills Day__ Lights and Colors Regional Heritage and Mills Day June 14 & 15, 2014 Lights and Colors Saturday: Open from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday: Open from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Tour of the chapel and stained-glass windows by Auguste Alleaume FREE --- Visitors can tour the interior of the castle at a special rate of €10. “Master glassmaker Auguste Alleaume was born in Angers in 1854.”
After studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1875, he joined the prestigious Champigneulle studio in 1883. He remained there until 1893, when he moved to Laval and founded his own studio.
He died in 1940 in Laval. The workshop quickly became a family business, bringing together the three Alleaume brothers: Auguste, Ludovic (1859–1941), and Paul (1856–1940). Auguste was the master glassmaker who oversaw every stage of the stained-glass creation process.
Ludovic, a painter based in Paris, was also a cardboard artist closely involved in the studio’s creative process and would co-sign the studio’s finest works with Auguste. Paul, for his part, was a cutter and assembler. His works can be found primarily in the Mayenne department (Craon, Chailland, Livré-la-Touche, Cuillé, Montjean, Montaudin, Désertines, Mayenne, Laval, Château-Gontier, Villaines-la-Juhel, Saint-Denis-du-Maine…).
Countess Molitor commissioned the stained-glass windows for the chapel at Bourgon Castle, which were designed and crafted by Alleaume and installed around 1930. 
Bourgon Chapel: East Gable