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The Château de Duisans, also known as Clairefontaine, is a classical building in white Artois stone, built in 1752 for Antoine-Guillaume Dubois de Hoves by the Arras master mason André Merville, on the site of earlier castles (around 1400, then around 1680). Its symmetrical north façade has a central pediment; the south façade, facing the garden, has three bays. It passed by inheritance to the Laroche family, of whom Antoine Laroche fils presided over the Academy of Arras. It served as a field hospital during 1914–1918, was given to the Diocese of Arras in 1957, and later became a school and leisure centre before being bought back by the communauté de communes in 2019. The façades and roofs have been listed as Monuments historiques since 1948.