Château de Chaulieu

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Le château en bref

The Château de Chaulieu, in the south-east of the Manche department, is a former fortified manor house dating from the 16th century. Around 1552, the seigneurie passed to Thomas Bourget; Pierre Bourget probably had the present courtyard built on the site of an older château. After the Bourgets (until 1706), the Carbonnels (1709) and the Calmesnils (1742), the estate was sold in 1753 to Julien des Rotours, whose family kept it until 1989. Louis de Frotté stayed there in 1796; in 1944, the US 29th Infantry Division set up its command post there, and the building was severely damaged during the German counter-attack at Mortain. Bought back in 1989 by M. and Mme Cenni, who restored it, it is a single-storey, quadrangular building flanked by two bartizans, with mullioned windows, surrounded by a moat. It is partially listed as a monument historique.