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Always inhabited, since 1502, by the family of the dukes of Brissac and higher than all the royal castles, Brissac is built on seven levels. Brissac belongs to the line of Cossé-Brissac since 1502, date on which Rene de Cossé, chamberlain of the king, went purchaser d'un first castle, built a few years earlier per Pierre de Brézé, minister of Charles VII then of Louis XI. At the beginning of the XVIIème century, Charles II, first duke of Brissac, Marshal of France, decides the rebuilding of the castle. Work stop in 1621, with dead of the duke. This historical context explains the silhouette somewhat strange of the castle, d'une disproportionate height and compressed between two big round towers. Only the left half of the castle and the central house were carried out, between two turns of XVème century dedicated to the demolition. Another body of symmetrical building should have developed beyond the central house of l'escalier, after the destruction of the turns. It s'agit d'un colossal project by its dimensions. With its three stages, increased attic windows which suggest an attic, the main building has an unusual height, accentuated by the low length of l'aile. The building is double in-depth, which gives a monumental character on the castle. This system of multiple roofs gives much d animation to the high parts. In the North-East, a gallery carried out after l'abandon of the great project of frontage joined an important projecting house.