Guermantes Castle
The Château de Guermantes (French. Château de Guermantes ) is a French castle in Guermantes in the Seine-et-Marne , Region Ile-de-France . The baroque building, which is only two kilometers from Eurodisney , has been a French cultural monument since August 9, 1944 .
description
The H-shaped brick building with stone facades and corner stones stands in a large park. The main wing is flanked by risalits . Its steep roofs are covered with slate and have tall chimneys.
Currently, the original furniture has disappeared, but some furniture has 17th and 18th century decorations. The castle is privately owned and is not open to the public.
history
Claude Viole, who died in 1638, had the castle built on the Le Chemin fief , which had been in the family since the mid-16th century. When Claude Violes son Pierre, former President of the Paris Parlements , the Seigneur de Guermantes ci-devant Le Chemin was also the estate including the thereon village got its name Guermantes .
In 1698 the property was acquired by Paulin Pondre (1650–1723), who as a tax collector from Lyon had become one of the most influential financiers in the time of Louis XIV . He called on Jules Hardouin-Mansart for the restoration of the building, which was completed in 1710. André Le Nôtre was responsible for designing the gardens. In 1713 Pondre was appointed President of the French Court of Auditors . Guermantes Castle became the scene of festivities that made a lasting impression on the guests.
In 1719 the Scottish banker John Law bought the property for £ 800,000 . However, he only remained the owner for a few months, then the so-called Mississippi bubble burst , for which he was primarily responsible. Law had to flee bankrupt France and the castle fell back to Paulin Pondre. In the course of the French Revolution , his estate was temporarily secularized . After the restoration in France, it remained in family ownership until 1920.
use
More recently, the castle has been the location of several films, such as Cartouche, the Bandit (1962) by Philippe de Broca , Danton by Andrzej Wajda , Amadeus (1984) by Miloš Forman and Dangerous Liaisons by Stephen Frears .
The castle has had a new owner since 2008 and has since been converted into a congress center.
Role in fiction
- Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time , Part 3: The Way to Guermantes. In this volume, the first-person narrator falls in love with the much older Duchess of Guermantes.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry no. PA00087025 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Guermantes - Un peu d'Histoire… ( Memento of the original of September 23, 2010 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. on www.guermantes.info
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 11 " N , 2 ° 41 ′ 52" E