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Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët: Intercommunality: ... (French pronunciation: [le lɔʒ maʁʃi]) is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
Henriette de La Guiche, the daughter of Philibert, built the stables for her second husband, Louis-Emmanuel de Valois, comte d'Alais , colonel général of the king's cavalry, governor of Provence, and a grandson of Charles IX of France. Alais had also inherited the Château d'Écouen. These royal connections account for the monumentality of ...
Tourouvre et les Juchereau –Un chapitre de l'émigration percheronne au Canada, Contribution No 13. Société canadienne de Généalogie (Québec) / Association Perche-Canada. perche-quebec.com (Online). "Jean Guyon (1592 Tourouvre - 1663 Beauport), Arbre de parenté avec Céline Dion". PRDH (Online) (February 2017). "The Pioneers".
Main building, viewed from the southwest. The Château de Cany is a château located in Cany-Barville, a French municipality in the department of Seine-Maritime.It was built by Pierre Le Marinier towards the end of Louis XIII's reign and served as a family residence.
The present Château de La Roche-Guyon [4] was built in the 12th century, controlling a river crossing of the Seine, itself one of the routes to and from Normandy; [5] The Abbé Suger described its grim aspect: "At the summit of a steep promontory, dominating the bank of the great river Seine, rises a frightful castle without title to nobility, called La Roche.
Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t fwa də mɔ̃ɡɔmʁi] ⓘ) is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Val-de-Vie .
The village's history is closely linked to the Saint Stephen abbey "Abbaye Saint-Étienne-de-Fontenay" founded on his land of Fontenay by Raoul Tesson around 1047 under the patronage of Duke William of Normandy (before he became King of England following his victory in Hastings in 1066) and which survived until the French Revolution at the end of the 18th century.
Manoir de Saint-Ortaire, au Dézert private; Château du Tourps in Anneville-en-Saire, vestiges of the feudal manor, 18th-century château, private, visible from outside; Manoir de Vauville and its botanical gardens in Vauville, private, open to visitors