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Le château en bref
Château de Rosamel lies in Frencq, in the Boulonnais hinterland (Pas-de-Calais). On the site of a fortified manor house dating from the fifteenth century, the seigneury was acquired in 1710 by Louis du Campe. His grandson, Claude-Louis-Marie du Campe de Rosamel, maréchal de camp, began rebuilding the château around 1770 to plans by the Boulonnais architect Giraud-Sannier; the work was continued by his son, Claude du Campe de Rosamel (1774–1848), naval officer, Minister of the Navy and peer of France. The stone building, roofed in slate, comprises four residential wings of three storeys around a narrow inner courtyard, flanked by corner towers and surrounded by moats on three sides, a reminiscence of defensive architecture in an eighteenth-century building; outbuildings and pavilions complete the ensemble. The family kept the estate until 1919. Listed as a monument historique since 1966, the château, which is privately owned, is now in ruins and is not open to visitors.