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The Château des Fresnes is an iconic building located in Campigny, Calvados department, Normandy. Dating mainly from the eighteenth century, it embodies the aristocratic residential architecture of this period, marked by elegant lines and functional amenities such as dovecotes, symbols of prestige.

The monument is closely linked to the Bauquet-Surville family, Marquis de Campigny, who has owned it since 1772. This noble line preserved the castle and its outbuildings, including the dovecoier à lanternon, registered as the Historic Monuments on July 2, 1927. This dovecote, a remarkable architectural element, bears witness to the agricultural and seigneurial practices of the modern era.

Located 500 metres south of the village of Campigny, the castle is part of a Norman rural landscape, where the large properties played a central role in social and economic organization. Although little information details its precise use over the centuries, its maintenance in the same family suggests a rare heritage continuity, reflecting the attachment of local elites to their heritage.

Available sources, such as the works of Arcisse de Caumont or the Mérimée bases, underline its importance in the heritage of Calvados. Today, the Fresnes castle remains a tangible testimony of regional history, between aristocratic memory and valorization of the ancient building.

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