A visit to the heritage of Englesqueville-la-Percée with the ADTLB

On Friday, August 29, nearly eighty people participated in a visit to Englesqueville-la-Percée proposed by the Association for the Development of Tourism and Leisure in Bessin, the ADTLB. This latest discovery of the series devoted to the municipalities of Bessin associated built heritage and local history, under the leadership of the association's facilitator.

The article explains the name of the municipality by the low Latin "angliscus", English, the Latin "villa", rural domain, and the place called Pointe de la Percée, on the English Channel. It presents the castle of Englesqueville, also called Saint-Clair, as a 17th century building; Rouge-Fosse as a 16th and 17th century mansion; and Écajeul as a mansion farm of Romanesque origin that has preserved a house with remarkable architectural elements. The church of Saint-Vigor is dated, as a whole, to the end of the 12th and beginning of the 13th centuries.

The visit made it possible to discover some of these buildings and to evoke their guests. The cut cites in particular the stays, in the 19th century, of two presidents of the Republic, Sadi Carnot and Félix Faure. The photograph, credited with Mézerette, shows visitors to the church.

Reconstructed or uncertain passages:
- The cut indicates Friday, August 29, with no visible year. The ranking in Dossier2019 is not enough to date the 2019 visit.
- The dates, etymology and presidential stays are those reported by the article, without attached supporting documents.

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