Castle of Beauté-sur-Marne
The castle Beauté-sur-Marne (also called Beauté-lez-Paris ) was a royal country castle near Vincennes . Today the site belongs to the city of Nogent-sur-Marne .
King Charles V the Wise - he ruled from 1364 to 1380 - had the building restored in search of peace and quiet away from the court of Vincennes . When you left the drawbridge and the enclosing wall behind you, you entered a garden with a spring. The country palace itself consisted of a large tower, in which each floor corresponded to a room. The Chambre des Évangelistes , where the king slept, was on the first floor . This was also where he housed his library. There was an altar on the second floor where mass could be read.
The Beauté Castle was not intended to receive Queen Jeanne de Bourbon , for whom Charles V acquired the Manoir de Plaisance from his brother Philip the Bold , Duke of Burgundy , in 1375 and after whom the town of Neuilly-Plaisance takes its name . Ludwig I , the Duke of Anjou , another brother of the king, also built a mansion nearby, but no trace of it can be found.
In 1378 Emperor Charles IV came to France to visit; at a time when the English had resumed hostilities and Christianity was facing two popes. It was a diplomatic mission in an attempt to strengthen ties between the two monarchs. A manuscript in the Bibliothèque nationale de France shows Charles V receiving the emperor and his son Wenceslaus , King of Bohemia. The emperor resided from January 12th to 16th in the castle of Beauté-sur-Marne, where Charles V visited him every day from Vincennes. Christine de Pizan writes: “À beauté fu l'Empereur plusieurs jours et le Roy chascun jour l'aloit visiter et en secret parloient longuement.” (German: “The emperor stayed in Beauté for several days, and the king came to visit him every day to talk to him in secret for a long time. ”) On January 16, the Emperor and the French King traveled on to the Manoir de Plaisance .
King Charles V died in Beauté Castle on September 16, 1380 . After that, the building fell into oblivion. It was only when Charles VII gave it to his mistress Agnès Sorel as a gift in 1448 and thus made her Dame de Beauté that there was renewed talk of the buildings. Enguerrand de Monstrelet writes: "Et comme entre les belles estoit tenue pour la plus belle du monde fut appelée damoyselle de Beauté tant pour cette cause que pour ce que le roy lui avait donné à sa vie la maison de Beaulté lez Paris." (German : "And since she was considered the most beautiful in the world among the beautiful and was therefore called Mademoiselle de Beauté, but also because the King had given her the House of Beauté near Paris for life".)
An engraving from 1610 still shows the tower of Beauté, which Richelieu finally had torn down in 1626.
During the construction of a railway line, 62 tiles were found from the castle, which represent an artistic ensemble and are now in the Musée Carnavalet in Paris.
Beauté-sur-Marne in literature
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Sur tous les lieux plaisans et agréables |
Among all the pleasant and pleasant places |
Ballad by Eustache Deschamps (1346–1406)
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Coordinates: 48 ° 49 ′ 58.5 " N , 2 ° 28 ′ 30.7" E