Hameau Dunière-Dénéchaud

This seigneurial manor site was home to the second seigneur, Aleandre (Isaac) Berthier, and to the Rigauville and Dunière-Dénéchaud families. The seigneurie of Berthier, or Bellechasse, preserves the memory of Alexander Berthier, captain of the Carignan regiment, to whom the seigneurie was granted on October 29, 1672. The site is now called Hameau Dunière-Dénéchaud in honor of the last two seigneurs of the Seigneurie of Bellechasse, Louis Durière (1723-1806) and Claude Dénéchaud (1768-1836). When the quay was built in 1853, the site contained buildings used for maritime trade and agriculture, including the manor house, farm houses, a barn, a cooper’s shop, a dairy, a cooler, and two windmills. A stone fireplace marks the location of the second manor house, rebuilt on this historic site in the early nineteenth century by Louis Dunière and later inhabited by Claude Dénéchaud. Despite many efforts to preserve it, the Dénéchaud manor became dilapidated and was demolished in 1994.

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