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Le château en bref
Montdoucet Castle stands at the locality of the same name, in Souancé-au-Perche, at the end of a long driveway. In 1754, Pierre-Claude Guillier acquired the lands and seigneuries of Souancé and Montdoucet, which then remained in his descendants' hands. Charles de Souancé, future naval commissary and ornithologist, was born there in 1823. His descendant Hector Guillier de Souancé, born in 1861, an officer and historian of the Perche, devoted a monograph to the castle in 1895, inherited the estate in 1903 and had it restored and remodelled from 1905 by the architects Alfred Coulomb and Louis Chauvet; the landscape gardener Charles Revéron drew up the plans for the park in 1913. The regional inventory links the main building to an older manor house, supplemented by wings, a chapel attested in 1737, outbuildings and an orangery. The estate is privately owned. Several other manor houses of the Perche connected with the Montdoucet family should not be confused with it.