Champs-sur-Marne castle
The Champs-sur-Marne castle is a noble residence built in the 18th century in the heart of the city of the same name in the Seine-et-Marne department , 30 kilometers east of Paris . Its most famous resident (but only for a little over a year) was Madame de Pompadour in 1757/59 . The castle was the state guest house of the Republic of France from 1935 to 1974 .
Parts of the film Marie-Antoinette by Sofia Coppola were shot in the main building . The national research laboratory for historical buildings is located in the outbuildings . After extensive restoration, the palace building was opened to the public again at the end of June 2013. The 85 hectare park is open to the public for visits.
history
The construction of the palace, which began in 1701 - towards the end of the reign of Louis XIV - by the architect Pierre Bullet on behalf of the court arms supplier Charles Renouard de la Touanne, was briefly interrupted in 1703 after the builder went bankrupt. The architect's son, Jean-Baptiste Bullet de Chamblain, was able to continue construction when the large landowner Paul Poisson de Bourvallais , whose Paris city palace is now the seat of the French Ministry of Justice, bought the property, including the unfinished building. The year 1706 is the year of completion of the castle.
Madame de Pompadour lived there from July 1757 to January 1759 for rent for 12,000 livres annually and during this period she spent a lot of money on the interior, mainly on paintings and frescoes by the famous animal painter Christophe Huet . The Parisian banker Baron Louis Cahen d'Anvers acquired the property in 1895 and had the first complete renovation carried out. His daughter Irène Cahen d'Anvers was married to the famous art collector Baron Moïse de Camondo from 1892 until their divorce in 1901 , whose Paris city palace at 63 rue de Monceau is now a famous museum of decorative arts . The collection is the memory of the only son of the couple, Nissim de Camondo dedicated to serving as a pilot in World War I died. In 1935 Louis' son, Charles Cahen d'Anvers, bequeathed the castle to the French state, which used it as a guest house for state guests until 1974. The lack of funds to maintain the castle meant that its condition has continued to deteriorate since then.
Since major structural damage caused by a ceiling collapse on September 20, 2006, the castle was closed to the public. After a general renovation, the castle has been open to the public again since June 2013.
garden
The gardens were laid out by Paul Poisson de Bourvallais, who created a French garden with box borders . The concept came from Claude Desgots , André Le Nôtres' nephew .
Individual evidence
- ^ Claude Hourdel, De Gaulle et ses hôtes à Champs-sur-Marne , 2011, p. 22
- ↑ On the closure of the Champs-sur-Marne Castle (French) , December 14, 2006
- ↑ Note on the castle homepage ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Site of the castle
- Champs-sur-Marne Castle as a 3D model in SketchUp's 3D warehouse
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 14 " N , 2 ° 36 ′ 15" E