A neoclassical château designed by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux in the 1770s, considered one of the finest examples of his work in Normandy. The building now functions as a maternity hospital — an oddly peaceful use for a place so close to the D-Day sites — but is open to visitors during temporary exhibitions and guided visits. The exterior and formal grounds are worth a look even when the interior is closed; the grand entrance façade and the small formal park give a good sense of Ledoux's austere but elegant style.
It's a brief walk from Pegasus Bridge, and the contrast is startling: within a few hundred metres you move from one of the great military engineering feats of the twentieth century to one of the finest examples of eighteenth-century French domestic architecture. The village has managed to hold both stories simultaneously without either one overwhelming the other.