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Château de Mathieu, formerly the Château Saint-Ouen, near Caen (Calvados), is a rectangular building dating from the mid-18th century, built for a marquis de Fresnel, whose family had held the estate since 1641. Sober and symmetrical, it has two storeys above a basement and a projecting central section with a triangular pediment, flanked by the Baroque chapel of Saint-Sauveur and a former stable pavilion with a dovecote. Acquired in 1813 by Jacques-Mathieu Danjon, it was the home of the palaeontologist Eugène Eudes-Deslongchamps and later of the geologist Alexandre Bigot, whose descendants now own it. Private property.