DENOUVAL MANOR
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The mansion was the home of a wealthy American woman, Sarah Hershey Marsh, until her death in 1911
This astonishing building was constructed between 1904 and 1908 by Pierre Sardou, chief architect of the Monuments Historiques and son of the playwright Victorien Sardou. It was the residence of a wealthy American, Sarah Hershey Marsh, until her death in 1911. The mansion's originality lies in its glazed turret, a kind of belvedere ending in the shape of a Chinese pagoda, balanced on biscornus roofs and visible from afar. Inside the manor house, the large central hall once housed an organ. In 1945, the building was acquired by the Union des Juifs pour la Résistance et l'Entraide, which took in surviving Jewish orphans after the Second World War and the deportations. For four years, until 1949, almost 200 children stayed there while waiting for news from their parents or closest relatives, and attended school in the village. They were accompanied for a time by the painter Marc Chagall, who spent a brief period there. From 1953 to 1968, it also housed the major seminary of the Salesian Fathers of Don Bosco.
Today, the residence has been divided into apartments, and its gardens have given way to apartment blocks, forming the Résidence du Manoir de Denouval. The chalet also houses the Centre yvelinois des arts de la marionnette et des arts associés (CYAM). Every year on May 8, in front of the plaque in rue du Général Leclerc, a tribute is paid to the Jewish orphans who fell victim to the Nazis.
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