LA BUTTE CHAUMONT
This is a point of reference in the landscape. Culminating at 378 m above sea level, the Butte Chaumont emerges from the forest of Listen. During the First World War, the Butte Chaumont was chosen as one of the high posts, on a Brest/Lyon line, to monitor the possible passage of German aircraft or airboats. André Button, the future regional historian, invested in 1917 from the command of the position of Saint-Denis-sur-Sarthon, was charged with building a tower on the top of the Butte and installing his troupe in a wooden barrel. He never lives an enemy plane… But in 1924 he published a book called the Picturesque Surroundings of Alençon: The Butte-Chaumont.
Extract: «From the Butte-Chaumont summit, geologist will be able to locate the phases of all major events (geological).» It will mainly have a beautiful overview of the Jurassic Strait between the ancient Perseigne and Tarves mountains and which is communicating the Caen countryside by the plains of Argentan, Inés and Alençon, with the Saosnois region. " "
The Butte Chaumont has been protected since 1931.
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