STORY MANOR OF BEAUMARCHAIS

The hamlet of Beaumarchais is located about 1 km north of the village Chapelles-Bourbon. Reported as stronghold in the sixteenth century, it passes in many hands under the Old regime. A stately home, probably dating from the seventeenth century, and a farm are built there.

In the nineteenth century, Jean-Denis Lanjuinais, famous lawyer and politician of the time, owns the estate. On his death in 1827, his son-in-law, Baron Auguste de Berthois (1787-1870), an officer close to Napoleon until his abdication, inherited it. In the late 1920s, the famous jeweler Louis Boucheron (1874-1959), only son of Frédéric Boucheron (1830-1902), founder of the Boucheron House in 1858, bought the estate to make it his hunting home. In 1927, he built a new home in a more wooded area, away from the road, the farm and the old water ditches.

Completed in October 1928, the Beaumarchais mansion still belongs to Louis Boucheron's descendants, who today offer a bed and breakfast welcome. In 1995, the facades and roofs of Beaumarchais Manor are listed in the supplementary inventory of Historic Monuments.

THE CHOICE OF AN ARCHITECT: HENRI JACQUELIN

Architect of Norman origin, Henri Jacquelin (1872-?) Was appointed to carry out this architectural project. Born in Evreux, this one is noticed for these many transformations and modernizations of manors in the Calvados or the Eure: Saint-Hilaire manor in Louviers, manor of La Pommeraye, castle of Small-Fountain in Arromanches. Installed in Paris, Henri Jacquelin finishes, in 1927, the reconstruction of the castle of Hattonchâtel in Lorraine in a style, this time, "troubadour".

A NEO-NORMAND STYLE

The source of inspiration for the manor is clearly the Norman architecture including that of the manor houses of the Auge country of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Henri Jacquelin, with an almost archaeological concern, has brought together sometimes disparate elements of this architecture, playing on the materials (stone, brick, wood), the volumes (varied and complex) and the decor (equipment of the stone, carved wood, colonnade).

The Manor, with large openings, is oriented east-west to capture the maximum light.

The decor is classic and comfortable so that guests really feel like guests.