The High-Vault

the High-Vault is a common French, located in the department of the Orne and the area Basse-Normandie.

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Manor of Chaslerie:

The manor of Chaslerie is composed, on a slope dominating a small brook, the BEAUDOUËT (affluent of SHELLS, which is thrown in the GAME PRESERVE, then the MAYENNE, then the LOIRE), of a picturesque whole of buildings built over an old site (close to a Roman way), of XVIe to the 18th centuries, and very diverse forms, in particular on the level of the roofs. It is located at approximately five kilometers in the North of DOMFRONT (department of the Flowering ash), on the road of LONLAY the ABBEY. The principal materials, in this extremity of the Armorican Solid mass, are the schist and the slate.

The manor of Chaslerie constitutes what, in the Norman scrap-metal, one calls a " village" , with farm, press with its " gadage" , " cave" (for pear and the apple-brandy), bakehouses and well. Various other dependences, they in half-timbering (currently dismounted in preparation for their later restoration), supplemented the accesses. The manor itself is built around a closed court. The principal building, in the East of the court, is flanked in diagonal of two towers capped in pepper plantations; it carries the date of 1598; inside, a large granite " staircase; with wall of échiffre" the first stage serves. In the West of the court, are built a tower remarkable Louis XIII by the height of its rod of chimney (about fifteen meters), a building of stables and a dovecote. In the South of the court, the double door charretière and pedestrian is surmounted by an elegant dome " with the impériale" , with reversed curves. On the whole of the buildings on court, the chimneys are decorated with " balls of noblesse" , according to a supposed local tradition, at least under the Old Mode, to move away the tax officials by pointing out the nobility from the occupants… The vault, dedicated to Sainte Anne and of which the interior was richly decorated with murals with three recoveries (with the Rebirth, under Louis XIV and at the 19th century), is built with a score of meters in the South of the principal building; with this last, various walls bored of many loopholes, low walls and three ditches, it surrounds a ground known in the past under the name of " Pournouët" (what returns to the marshy character of the grounds downwards, in the East). A two kilometers length alley connects the manor to the borough of the HIGH VAULT.

The manor belonged to family LEDIN (" of fascé azure, with three stars as a chief and a heart at a peak, the whole of or") until the Revolution. In terms of feudality, Chaslerie concerned the abbot and the monks of LONLAY. One of family members LEDIN, managing the private interests of Minister SULLY to this abbey, had grown rich enough in this role to build (or rebuild) the principal building in 1598, year of the Edict of NANTES. The violence of these disturbed times explains the marked defensive character of the manor. Family LEDIN occupied with various recoveries the load of Viscount of DOMFRONT and rose socially, in particular thanks to alliances, without however exceeding, at least in the administrative order, of the local loads. A LEDIN had tried to put forward near the genealogist of the Court of HOZIER the seniority of its nobility, in connection in particular with a seat of DOMFRONT in 1382; but of HOZIER had not confirmed these claims. It is in fact, however, that to the 17th century, the church of Our-Lady-on Water, to DOMFRONT, had been to some extent annexed by the family LEDIN which there had made affix her weapons at multiple places and had deposited the tombstones of number of her members, including elegant lying in armor, carved in the limestone and which constitutes, to date, the only lying one remaining in the department of the Flowering ash. At the time of the Revolution, family LEDIN was " fallen in quenouille" ; the son-in-law owner of Chaslerie, Louis-Marie of VASSY, count of BRECE and PIROU, lord of DRILL AUVRAY, was appointed of the nobility to the State-Generals then emigrated, so that Chaslerie was sold like National Bien. Family LEVEQUE, of the legal profession originating in the borough close to SAINT MARCH To SHELLS, then made of it acquisition and preserved it during two centuries. The last owners of Chaslerie, Mr. and Mrs. Pierre-Paul FOURCADE, bought it in 1991 and carry out of it the restoration under the control of the administration of the Cultural Affairs.

Registered voter, with the whole of his dependences, with the additional inventory of the historic buildings by ministerial decree of 1926, the manor was classified historic building in 1995.

The public can visit free the outside of the manor throughout the year. The interior can be also visited, but by groups and on go; the import duty in is tiny.

Since 1991, work of restoration mainly aimed at the setting out of water of the dwellings and the repairing of the accesses. The interior of the buildings should be rehabilitated and restored later on.

As curiosity, one will announce here the restoration of finials of the manor, according to the models and guns of the old pottery of GER, which ceased producing at the beginning of the 20th century. It will be also noted that the local careers not producing more, since ten years, that gravel, the restoration of various walls and low walls requires the purchase and the disassembling of old buildings in the firm neighborhoods to recover the stones of them.

An association had been created there are about fifteen years to support the restoration of the manor. However, the new team of the General advice of the Flowering ash having chosen, contrary for example to her neighbors of the Apple-brandy, the English Channel, the Sarthe or Mayenne, to remove any subsidy with the private historic buildings, this association is actuellemnt in sleep. One will restrict oneself here to wish that the policy of decentralization not be incompatible with an enlightened management of the public money.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Flowering ash

External bonds

the High-Vault on the site of the national geographical Institute
the High-Vault on the site of INSEE
the High-Vault on the site of Quid
Localization of the High-Vault on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane of the High-Vault on Mapquest

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