Château de Mailloc

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Le château en bref

Mailloc Castle, at Saint-Julien-de-Mailloc (now Valorbiquet, Calvados), is a ruined castle. A fortress destroyed during the Hundred Years' War remained in ruins until 1462; the barony was entirely rebuilt at the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century, then remodelled in the 17th century by Gabriel de Mailloc. The quadrangular enclosure, with round corner towers, was surrounded by a moat. The estate belonged in particular to the d'Harcourt family (1724) and then to Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1816). An accidental fire destroyed the château in 1925, and it was never rebuilt.