Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Logis du Maine-Giraud
Champagne-Vigny, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures (cad. C 242) : inscription par arrêté du 13 novembre 1967
- Protection dates
- 1967/11/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- manoir
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Champagne-Vigny
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.49731, 0.02930
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104277
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1714 map "Bourdelois du Perigord." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Vieille gentilhommière qui tire toute sa célébrité des séjours qu'y fit Alfred de Vigny, de 1850 à 1853. L'édifice se compose d'un corps de logis rectangulaire dont la façade principale donne sur le sud. Deux tours carrées existaient à chaque extrémité. Au centre, tour polygonale renfermant l'escalier à vis et servant d'entrée. Dans une tourelle accolée sur le côté et couverte par un toit conique, un petit escalier conduit au cabinet occupant le sommet de la tour et dans lequel, d'après la tradition, le poète écrivit plusieurs de ses oeuvres.
English translation
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History
Old manor house which owes all its fame to the stays that Alfred de Vigny made there, from 1850 to 1853. The building consists of a rectangular main dwelling whose principal facade overlooks the south. Two square towers existed at each end. At the center, polygonal tower containing the spiral staircase and serving as entrance. In a small turret attached to the side and covered by a conical roof, a small staircase leads to the study occupying the top of the tower and in which, according to tradition, the poet wrote several of his works.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Christopheégliseunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Médardéglise1 mi
- Église Saint-Barthélémy ou Saint-Arthémy de Blanzacéglise2 mi
- Chapelle des Templierschapelle3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.