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On that square was the market hall for crops. The townhall stands here since 1847, where St-Antoine convent was. Between the two streets, on the right, you will find the Barré de Jumilly’s town house, which dates from the 17th century.
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A timber-framed merchant house with a small jetty and the inscription MDXV (1515) can be seen on the right side of rue St-Julien, which was previously called rue Froide.
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The first St-Julien church stood on this square ; it was destroyed in 1744. The square was then a fruit, vegetable and flower market. On a side of the square : Bistrot St-Julien, a nice timber-framed house.
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This was the main street in the Middle Ages. Today, it bears the name of a mayor of Domfront from 1888 to 1910 who brought water on the mains and the telephone to the town. At number 18 bis is a lintel with carved coat-of-arms. At the corner of rue de la Poissonnerie, you can see a facade with shingles (wooden tiles to protect the facade).
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From this place, the view over the bocage is excellent. Before the 14th of June 1944 bombing, this area was partially built-up. Previously rue Tripière (where they cooked tripes). At the end of the street, on your right, you can see a square tower that contains a staircase.
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Built in 1924, it was one of the first structures to be built using reinforced concrete. Its plan is square and its inside decorations are of a byzantine inspiration (For more details, please ask for St-Julien leaflet).
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On this site, two townhouses were built in the 17th century. The Marie du Rocher’s townhouse is on your right and opposite, the staircase tower is part of the Roullin-Martinière’s townhouse.
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You can see a half-timbered house dating from the 16th century with a jetty (the upper floor projects outwards) and a wooden counter.
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At number 48, residence of the viscount in the 17th century with two different façades, one in fake timber-framing, and the other in granite (visible when in Rue des Fossés Plisson). You can notice the globes on each chimney stack. They possibly mean that the
owner was a nobleman.
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In Grande rue, situated opposite the restaurant called l’Echauguette, is a slate-covered overhanging tower, allowing to check Grande rue, for the Governors of the town.
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Champ de Foire, large rocky terrain was where the horse market used to stand. The high school is one of the oldest building used as a teaching establishment in Normandy. It was built in 1689 and the chapel beside it dates from 1730. It is now a theatre. It was given its current facade in 1904, restored in 2020.
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On the east, two fortified towers formed the barbicans. In the street, the only building remaining of the château de Godras, the residence of Domfront governors from the 16th to the 18th century.
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The Law-courts, unused today, were built here in the 19th century, when Domfront was sous-préfecture.
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Typically medieval, this narrow street has a gutter and side-stones. It bears the name of the man who captured here in 1574 the head of the Protestants, Gabriel de Montgommery.
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In this street, one has a fine view of the postern gate that allowed access to the medieval town. There used to be six gates : «Alençon», «Normandie», «Château», «Brière», «Cadin» and «Poterne». Further down on the right, a series of corbels remains on the top of the ramparts.
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The last of the two towers that remains today from the Alençon gate is the entrance to the medieval town. It is on the south that we can count most of the towers.
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Partly destroyed, it has lost its defensive aspect. It is inhabited.
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Severely damaged. Only the base remains. It is hardly visible from the road.
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Better preserved, we can still see a few corbels under the roof. At the base the walls are about 2.5 metres thick. This tower is also inhabited.
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The best preserved, it still has its machicolation (inhabited). Next to it is the façade of the Coroller townhouse from the 17th century.
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It still has its corbels but not its machicolation. We can see a number of loopholes. It is inhabited.
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The last of the towers on the south side, only the base remains.
