The Hotel Sivard de Beaulieu was the last of the great noble houses built in Valognes under the monarchy. Its construction dates back to the early 1780s and belongs to Charles-Antoine Sivard, who came from a family of the upper class. From 1830 to 1871, the hotel housed English Carmelites, who, for the needs of their community, had a chapel built immediately. In 1871 the nuns of the Refuge de Caen replaced them and built dormitories, lingerie and an infirmary, for their young residents. Very badly devastated in June 1944, the complex was ravaged by fire and the outbuildings were completely destroyed. Rebuilt after the war but then abandoned, the Hotel Sivard de Beaulieu has benefited in recent months from a very beautiful architectural restoration, in favor of a particularly innovative project of solidarity beguinage.