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The Château de Couin, Louis XV style, was built between 1745 and 1749 in the commune of Couin, Pas-de-Calais. Initiated by the Landas family, this ambitious project aimed to replace an old seigneurial home with a classic and modern home. The Arrage architect Adrien François d的Huez supervised the works, completed in 1748, as evidenced by the date engraved on the facade. The owner, Philippe-Albert de Landas, Count of Louvignies and deputy of the nobility in the states of Artois, died in 1760, leaving his wife Isabelle d'Héricourt to continue the development, including the reconstruction of the adjacent church.

In the 1780s, their son added neoclassical stables to the estate. The French Revolution marked a turning point: the Count and his wife, imprisoned for their nobility status, were defended by the inhabitants of Couin in recognition of their services. The frontons of the castle, however, were stunned. Without direct heirs, the castle passed to the Louvencourts in the 19th century. Arthur de Louvencourt made important interior and exterior arrangements there in 1823, with his wife Emma, such as a large dining room or a faience stove.

During the First World War, the castle served as headquarters for a British medical division from 1915. It was occupied until the 1950s by the Louvencourts and then became a holiday colony before being abandoned until 2003. It was listed as a historical monument in 1965 and has since undergone major restoration. Open to the public since 2002, it is one of the most visited private castles in northern France.

With an area of more than 2,000 m2 with sixty-one rooms, the castle is built of white stone from Artois on a brick base. Its six-and-a-half-hectare park, in English, although identified as remarkable, was noted in abandonment. The building illustrates the architectural and social evolution of a three-century seigneury.

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