Pierre Godart, 1st Marquis of Belbeuf (1650-1720). Jean Pierre Prosper Godart, 3rd Marquis of Belbeuf (1725-1811) was General Prosecutor in the Parliament of Normandy and Grand Panetier of Normandy (an honor that consisted in presenting the bread to the king during his travels, privilege enjoyed by Jean Pierre Prosper in 1786 at the passage of Louis XVI in Rouen); he is buried in front of the main portal of the church of Belbeuf (the slab still exists). Jacques Godart, 6th Marquis of Belbeuf (1850-1906), ended the long male line of this name, but a collateral branch, the de Mathan, owned the ancestral domain for 25 years more. It was Raoul de Mathan who sold the estate in 1930 to Olivier Jallu, a lawyer in Paris. Occupied by the German armies during the World War II, stripped of its furniture and requisitioned for the housing of twenty families, the structure of the castles collapsed in 1956 and an auction in 1957 dispersed everything that presented more value; finally, in 1958, AXA Assurances became owner of the castle, whose interior restoration began in 1963 and the office building was inaugurated in May 1968. References 1850 births 1906 deaths