Ancien domaine de l'Hermitage

English translation

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History

The seigneurie of l'Hermitage consisted of a castle and a farm whose buildings formed a vast quadrilateral flanked by four corner pavilions and surrounded by ditches filled with running water. This seigneurie belonged to the Gentien family until 1573. It then passed into the hands of Marc Miron, first physician to the king, who very probably rebuilt the buildings between 1573 and 1604. The seigneurie remained in the Miron family until 1684. The Landois family acquired it by auction and retained it until 1759. The Landois heirs then disposed of it in favour of Marie François de Paule Lefèvre d'Ormesson. The castle and farm were then in very poor condition. The buildings housing the wheat and oat granaries were the first to be destroyed and replaced by new granaries built further south between 1760 and 1780. The remaining buildings were demolished progressively during the 19th century. Only two corner pavilions and the farm buildings rebuilt in the 18th century still survive. The Morel d'Arleux family, which became owner of the whole from 1880 onwards, had a main dwelling built in a regional style by the architect Meunier. The whole still belongs to the descendants of the Morel d'Arleux family.