Château de la Bretonnière

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Le château en bref

The Château de la Bretonnière, at Golleville (Manche), is a country residence in the Cotentin composed of a 17th-century manor house of the Cotentin type — brick-and-stone chequerboard masonry, mullioned windows —, a classical 18th-century wing, a chapel, a brick dovecote and outbuildings. The formal gardens are enclosed by moats in a semicircle fed by a hydraulic system, and an avenue leads to the whole estate. The estate belonged to the Avice de Gotot family, then to the Jourdan family — René Jourdan, governor of the Bastille, had the present château built —, to the Lefèvre de La Grimonière family and to the de La Couldre de La Bretonnière family. It has been listed as a monument historique by order of 15 March 2010 (façades and roofs of the manor house, chapel, dovecote, outbuildings, gardens, hydraulic system, avenue and boundary walls).