Can the château de Mathieu be visited?

No verified data confirms public access, as the estate remains private property.

Who built the château de Mathieu?

The present main building dates from the mid-eighteenth century and was built by a marquis of the Fresnel family.

What is the château's link to the Second World War?

Occupied by British forces after the landings, it served as a logistics base and was visited by Field Marshal Montgomery on 28 June 1944.

Who were the château's historical owners?

After the Fresnel family, the estate passed to the Danjon family, then by marriage to the geologists Eudes-Deslongchamps and Bigot, whose descendants still own it.

Château de Mathieu

Mathieu Castle

Mathieu

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Where: Mathieu

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Château de Mathieu stands in Mathieu (Calvados), in the Normandie region of France. No visits are on record for this building.

At la Capelle, the old quarter of the village of Mathieu near Caen, this mid-eighteenth-century château appears at the end of a double row of trees, behind a wrought-iron gate and a dry moat. Built for a marquis of the Fresnel family, the house later belonged to two notable figures in Norman geology and palaeontology, Eugène Eudes-Deslongchamps and his son-in-law Alexandre Bigot. Around the main building stand a chapel with baroque decoration, former farm outbuildings and a park planted with varied species of trees. The site also carries traces of the 1944 landings, when British forces set up a logistics base there, visited by Field Marshal Montgomery.

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What to know

The château remains a private property, still owned by descendants of the Bigot family.
The building is best seen from the road linking Périers-sur-le-Dan to Mathieu, particularly in winter when the trees are bare.
The estate's chapel, older than the present main house, retains sculpted baroque decoration.
No verified information is available regarding opening hours, admission fees or public access conditions.

Where this château is

Mathieu · Calvados · Normandie

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Address

4 Rue de la Chasse, 14920 Mathieu

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Château phone number

+33 2 31 44 13 59

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Can the château de Mathieu be visited?: No verified data confirms public access, as the estate remains private property.
Who built the château de Mathieu?: The present main building dates from the mid-eighteenth century and was built by a marquis of the Fresnel family.
What is the château's link to the Second World War?: Occupied by British forces after the landings, it served as a logistics base and was visited by Field Marshal Montgomery on 28 June 1944.
Who were the château's historical owners?: After the Fresnel family, the estate passed to the Danjon family, then by marriage to the geologists Eudes-Deslongchamps and Bigot, whose descendants still own it.