• The Château de Servigny is an old building, with some of its oldest walls going as far back as the early 16th Century, which has been renovated and improved up to the 19th Century. On 26 June 1944, the Surrender of Cherbourg was signed between the American General Collins and the German General von Schlieben, within its walls.

Drawing Room and Study of the Treaty of Servigny 26 June 1944	The American General Collins and the German General Von Schlieben signing the Surrender of Cherbourg

• Servigny has an extremely old history since it is one of the rare Gallo-Roman estates (late B.C era) still existing in the region. In fact, there is a feudal motte in the present garden, which is the foundation of the ancient keep. And if visitors are curious enough to walk towards the attractive path lined with hundred-year-old beech trees, known as the "Path of Sighs", they will discover that it used to be a Roman road. A fine washhouse and well of an impressive size still stand near this path.
  
  

• After the Gallo-Roman era, a very important pottery centre was set up near this path and the house, dating back to the pre-Carolingian period (before the 8th Century). It used to be a small village bordered by a charming river and a small wood of willows.

• As for the château itself, what is left of the original manor is the early 16th Century turret and its arrow slits, to the right of the house. The rest was burned down during the Hundred Years War by the English. The first owner of Servigny (14th Century) was from the house of Meurdrac, a very old family of knights, the ancestors of the present owner.

• To end this brief history about Servigny, there is one final anecdote. This charming and powerful place was the source of inspiration for the author Barbey d'Aureyvilly, who used it as the setting for his novel "Le Bonheur dans le Crime".