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Château de Pépinvast is located at Vicel, in the Cotentin. The Aigremont family were lords of the estate from the 16th century, Guy d'Aigremont being mentioned in 1529, and Nicolas d'Aigremont rebuilt the former manor house around 1730 in the form of a long, plain rectangular main block, with a raised ground floor, a first floor and an attic storey with dormer windows. In 1819, Prosper d'Aigremont sold the estate to Napoleonic general Jean Le Marois, whose descendants enlarged the château in the 1860s and 1870s with Neo-Gothic and Neo-Renaissance façades and developed a stud farm from 1871. These extensions were removed in 1968, restoring the main block to its 18th-century appearance. The outbuildings retain a saddle room, a wash house, terraces and stud buildings decorated with glazed tiles, as well as a hunting pavilion with an oriental-style roof. The saddle room, the wash house and the terrace with its retaining walls have been listed as monuments historiques since 1992. The estate returned to the Aigremont family in 2009 and remains a private property.