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Saint-Ortaire Manor, also known as the Manor of La Mare du Dézert, at Le Dézert (Cotentin), is a seigneurial residence from the late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance, c. 1500. It belonged to the La Mare family from the fourteenth or fifteenth century until 1614; Guillaume de La Mare (1451–1525), a canon and jurist, is said to have overseen its reconstruction. Sold in 1614 to Michel Martin, a cloth merchant, it then passed to Armand-Jérôme Bignon and subsequently to Jérôme-Joseph-Marie Grimaldi of Monaco. It retains a large central hall of double height (4.95 m), one of the very few nearly intact in the Manche département, carved stone chimneypieces, spiral staircases in polygonal towers, and a bedroom block with an integrated chapel. Privately owned, it has been undergoing restoration since 2002.