This post was first published in June 2016 In a land full of fancy fortified manor houses and grand Conqueror’s castles, Manoir de la Saucerie, 7km west of Domfront, manages to stand out. Not because it isn’t really a manor; it is a gate house, but because of a 17th century decision. After
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Look what love can do – La Chaslerie in the Orne
When a vintage Normandy postcard shows a rather tumbledown building, we are never sure if we will find a gleaming restoration, or a pile of rubble. Happily the manor ‘La Chaslerie' gleams, and all because of a rather determined Parisian and his charming, if patient, wife. Looking for a new challenge Disenchanted by