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Le château en bref
The Manoir de Coupesarte, in the Calvados department, is a half-timbered residence dating from the 15th–16th centuries, with interiors refitted in the 17th century, which has retained its original timber frame with few alterations. Built on the fief of Beaumanoir, on the site of an earlier fortified building with a keep or dovecote protected by a wooden palisade, it was held by the d'Anisy family in the 15th century, then by the Le Prévost family before the end of the 16th century, and finally by the Le Viconte family from 1767. The fabulist Jacques Charles Formage was born there in 1749. Damaged by a bomb during the Battle of Normandy in 1944 — the staircase was hurled up into the attic — it received the "Chefs-d'œuvre en péril" (Masterpieces in Peril) award in the 1960s. The manor, its outbuildings (barns, stables) and its moats are now classified as historic monuments and belong to a family-owned property company (SCI).