Château de Brécourt

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Le château en bref

Built around 1625 for Jean Jubert, a councillor of the Grand Conseil, the Château de Brécourt takes its name from Robert de Brécourt, Bishop of Évreux, who was born on these lands in the 14th century. Built of stone and brick and surrounded by wide moats, it features a main building flanked by two pavilion wings and corner turrets topped with pepper-pot roofs. In July 1793 it was the scene of an episode of the Federalist revolt known as the 'battle without tears'; the estate then passed to Marshal Pérignon and later to American owners before being converted, from 1979, into a luxury hotel and restaurant for nearly thirty years. Closed since 2009 owing to safety compliance requirements, it now stands abandoned and has been the subject of attempted sales and a citizen-led campaign to save it.