In 1434, at the end of the One Hundred years War, the Pigace family gave three out of the 119 known Knights for the defence of Mont saint Michel when England had a siege to take it and they never did. During the French Revolution the Marquis de Montecot had officially emigrated even though we have no proof he ever did. His wife, the Marquise, very intelligently asked for divorce in 1792 in order to become the only owner of the estate and save it. (In this period emigrated aristocrats properties were confiscated).

There was here, during the French Revolution a bloody struggle between the local Republican army called “Les Bleus” and the farmer’s army called “Les Chouans”. The Republican burned the furniture and all that was inside the château but one portrait (the Marquise portrait which is still in the Marquise bedroom) and one book still here. It burned for three days! By the time, the Marquis had come back and became a Colonel in the Chouans army. He hid in the château for many years.
The Marquise sued the Bonaparte Government (for having burnt her furniture and belongings and she won. For that reason we know exactly what was burnt!

During WWII the château was occupied by Wermacht officers in summer 1940. They only stayed 3 months because there was not electricity here until 1948.My father, Arnaud de Roquefeuil, slightly wounded and made prisoner at first managed to come back and participated in the French Resistance in the” Liberation Nord Réseau”. He was arrested in Boucéel the 10th of July 1944 and brought in deportation towards the concentration camp Bucchenwald. He was lucky never to arrive because the railroad had been destroyed at La Chapelette Bridge in Peronne.

After he passed away in 1996, Nicole and I have started doing B&B in the château. The rooms are named from members of the family who have lived here.