Orne

Normandy

Château de Médavy

Built on the ruins of a medieval keep, then enlarged in the 18th century by Thiroux de Montregard, Médavy was home for three centuries to the Rouxel de Médavy family, who gave France two marshals. For some twenty years, Jean-Louis Charon and his wife have been restoring this château in the Orne, in…

Normandy

Château des Feugerets

Three red ferns on a coat of arms: the Feugerets family took its name from a fern that still grows on its land, and scattered the plant all over its château. A castle in the Perche, in southern Normandy, built in the late Middle Ages, reworked in the Renaissance and again under Louis XIII, made a…