Manoir d'Arville

En un regard

Le château en bref

In Sainte-Geneviève, in the Val de Saône to the north-east of the Cotentin, the Manoir d'Arville, or d'Arreville, succeeded an older residence. The Hennot family held the estate from the 15th century. In 1530, Nicolas de Hennot inherited it and married Catherine Le Clerc, daughter of the famous Norman privateer François Le Clerc, known as Jambe de Bois. Their grandson, Julien de Ravalet, sieur d'Arreville (Lord of Arreville), was executed in Paris in 1603, the conclusion of a case that remains famous in the history of the Cotentin. The most remarkable feature is a late 16th-century Renaissance pavilion tower, topped with a tall roof, with its montoir (mounting block) and large superimposed windows surmounted by oculi. The main residence, rebuilt in the 18th century, has two tiers of small-paned windows. The farm buildings retain a double gateway from the late 16th century, a cart shed with five arcades, and a press. The corner tower, the façades and the roofs of the residence are listed as Monuments historiques.