The great Norman writer La Varende spoke of «inexplicable magnificence».

It is true that there is nothing like it in Normandy: the château gate, with its wonderful Baroque decorations in stone, and the fantastic animal sculpted by Les Lalanne welcome visitors into a rare pœtic atmosphere. The gardens with sculpted elements, both in stone and in hedges, on terraces that rise, one above the other, like stages in a theatre.