Château de Thaon

It was Pierre BLOUET, who became Seigneur de THAN and was ennobled by LOUIS XIII in 1610, who took the initiative of building a new, more comfortable residence on the other side of the Mue. This small, two-storey château, which is still lit by Mansard-style windows, ends with a view over a park laid out in the spirit of the emulators of "LE NOTRE". A gently sloping part of the park allows the château?s narrow façade to be mirrored in a crossbow-shaped mirror of water fed by the CHIRONNE and MUE rivers. Adjacent to the new château. Pierre BLOUET de THAN also built a chapel dedicated to ST JEAN l?Evangéliste, dated 1624 on the portal.

A century later, Jacques BLOUET, Seigneur de THAN, councillor to the Baillage and Présidial of CAEN, had a larger dwelling built in 1732 as an extension to the small château. This vast dwelling, with its two slightly overhanging wings and carefully designed lines, was ornamented on both sides only by finely wrought iron balconies and a triangular pediment above the central bay.

The history of the new château did not end in 1926, as the 1939 ? 1945 saw the property occupied by the Germans for four years, before being occupied again on June 12, 1944 by the Canadians of the Royal Engineers, a fortunately sympathetic and necessary occupation for the landing operations and the liberation of FRANCE.