Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château
Couterne, Orne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château : inscription par arrêté du 17 avril 1931
- Protection dates
- 1931/04/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Couterne
- Département
- Orne
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.53518, -0.41333
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110788
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 1706 map "L'Evesche du Mans (northwest sheet)." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ce château fut construit par Jehan de Frotté, l'un des poètes de la cour de Marguerite de Navarre.
English translation
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History
This castle was built by Jehan de Frotté, one of the poets of the court of Marguerite de Navarre.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.