Château de Mazancourt

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The Château de Mazancourt is a château built in the 16th century by the Mazancourt family in the commune of Vivières, in the Aisne. The building was entirely rebuilt in the first half of the 17th century, with only one turret preserved from the original construction; a dovecote was added in 1721 and farm buildings in 1794. Gabriel-Auguste de Mazancourt, cavalry colonel and commander of the Order of Saint Louis, was its lord at the end of the 18th century before the estate was sold as national property during the Revolution. It then belonged to Charles Giroust and later to his niece Illyrine de Morency, before passing to M. Haguet and then to the writer Henry Bataille in the early 20th century. The building comprises a barrel-vaulted basement, a full upper storey served by a turning staircase, and an attic storey, under hipped, pavilion and polygonal roofs. The park, reworked in the 20th century, retains a horse shelter and an avenue of brick Tuscan columns. During the First World War, fighting took place near the château. The entrance gate, the façades and roofs of the château, the dovecote and the horse shelter, as well as the retaining wall of the terrace, were listed as historic monuments by order of 30 April 1982.