Yville Castle
The Yville Castle ( French Château dʼYville ) is a baroque castle in northeastern Normandy about 16 kilometers southwest of Rouen . Its construction was started in 1708 by François Le Menu de La Noë, who had an older previous building demolished for this purpose. The client had taken over financially, so he had to auction the still unfinished new building. In 1720 it was bought by the head of the Banque Royale , John Law , but he did not complete the palace either. It was only completed in 1735 by Prosper Goujon, Marquis of Gasville , after several years of construction interruption .
After the castle building already on 7 October 1931 as historique monument under monument protection was provided, followed on 19 November 2011, the recording of the entire domain, including Castle Park and outbuildings in the national monument list of France. The property is private property and is inhabited. It can therefore not be visited. The castle park is open to visitors on selected dates.
history
The land around Yville was first mentioned in 1066. At that time it belonged to Hugues de Wiville. Guillaume de La Houssaye is recorded as the owner for the year 1238. Then Yville came to the de Mortemer family (Mortimer). Guillaume de Mortemer's heir, Jeanne, brought the property to the Crespin de Bec-Crespin family through marriage in the 13th century. Guillaume de Crespin married Angès de Trie (also spelled Trye). Through this connection, the seigneurie at that time came to this family, to which it belonged in 1407. In that year, in addition to the land, there was a manor house with a pigeon tower , barns, stables and gardens. In 1418, during the Hundred Years' War , confiscated by the English and lent to William Arlyngton , Yville was returned to its former master, Jacques de Trie, on royal orders around 1450. His daughter Jeanne married Martin Pillavoine and brought the Seigneurie to his family, which appeared as the owner in 1497. She sold Yville to Charlotte Lhuillier, whose daughter Madeleine (married dʼEsquetot) inherited the property in 1540. With the marriage of Madeleine's daughter Charlotte to Charles I. de Cossé, comte de Brissac , Marshal of France , the property changed hands again. The couple's son, Charles II. De Cossé, duc de Brissac , left it to his nephew Timoléon d'Espinay , the son of his sister Jeanne, when he died in 1601 .
About François III. d'Espinay passed Yville to his daughter Marie-Anne, who was registered as the owner in 1696 and sold it on March 6, 1708 for 60,000 livres to François Le Menu de La Noë, a councilor and secretary to the French king. The new seigneur had the existing manor house laid down and began building a new castle. According to tradition, the plans come from Jules Hardouin-Mansart , but there is no evidence of this. François Le Menu de La Noë had taken over financially and was ultimately completely over-indebted. And so his still unfinished new building was foreclosed on May 14, 1717. The new owner for 124,000 livres was one of François' creditors, the Marquis Roger dʼEstampes, who also owned Mauny Castle, just two kilometers to the south . After his death just a few months later, on June 28, 1720, the property was sold to John Law, head of the Banque Royale in Paris, for 260,000 livres . But he did not stay long castle owner, because after bursting of the Mississippi bubble he fled abroad, while his entire estate under sequestration has been asked and eventually sold. On February 4, 1723, Jean-Prosper Goujon, Marquis of Gasville, acquired the still unfinished castle and the meanwhile dilapidated property for 158,000 livres. Until 1735 he had the palace construction continued by the architect Jacques Martinet, the outbuildings were repaired and the completely neglected palace garden was restored or rebuilt. In 1742 the lord of the castle moved into his new domicile and held a solemn inauguration on June 18 of that year.
After the death of Jean-Prosper Goujon in 1756, an inventory of the castle furniture was made. It reveals that the interiors were luxurious and gorgeous at the time. In the room called Cabinet d'assemblée alone there were five tapestries from Haute-Lisse , plus a canapé and six armchairs, the covers of which were also made from tapestries. A valuable four-poster bed with curtains and canopy made of taffeta was listed for another room .
The Goujon family remained the owners of the castle until 1865. That year, Jean-Maurice de Goujon, Marquis de Gasville, the last male offspring of this family branch, died. He bequeathed the property to his cousin, Count Paul de Maurès de Malartic, a son of his maternal uncle. His descendants remained owners until the 1980s. In 1983 the family sold the castle to Michel Frances, who had the dilapidated building completely restored . After his death in 1996 it was bought by its current owner, a private citizen from England.
description
location
The palace complex is located in the south of the French commune of Yville-sur-Seine and thus on the southern edge of the Seine-Maritime department and on the immediate border with the Eure department . The ruins of the monastery of Jumièges Abbey are less than six kilometers to the northwest.
The main building of the property stands at the foot of a range of hills, the slope of which slopes gently towards the castle. This stands at the same time in a meander of the Seine about 750 meters from its left bank.
architecture
Yville Castle is a two-storey building, consisting of a central wing, which is adjoined by two short side wings on a raised basement in the east and west. The outer walls were built from regional, yellowish limestone , the hip roof is covered with slate . On the southern (former) entrance side, the three castle tracts enclose a small inner courtyard in front of which there is an elongated lawn area. On the ground floor of the seven-axis central building is a closed gallery , the high arched windows of which were only added later in order to be able to use them as living space. The middle three axes of the gallery are formed by double-leaf doors, to which small stairs lead up. The facade features columns with Ionic capitals between the windows and doors . They carry a wide, profiled cornice that separates the ground floor from the upper floor. The upper floor is lower than the main floor on the ground floor, but even if its windows are correspondingly lower, the motif of a carved keystone in the arched arch is repeated in them . On the upper floor they are of a simplified form, while those on the ground floor show finely carved boar heads.
The facades on the long sides of the side wings show four axes, of which the middle two are each crowned by a triangular gable. The gable fields show richly carved reliefs . The motif of the triangular gable is repeated on the north-facing garden facade. It is the upper end of a three-axis central projection , to the doors of which on the ground floor a two - flight flight of stairs leads up. From there, an almost one kilometer long visual axis runs through the French garden, which is directly adjacent to the castle building, over an elongated lawn area and a meadow to the banks of the Seine.
Inside the main house, the wrought-iron railing of the large main staircase has been preserved, which the Goujon family commissioned from Louis Gerome Hegaux, a master locksmith in Caudebec, in 1766.
The 83 hectare property is bounded by an enclosure wall. In addition to the main castle, the architectural complex includes several former farm buildings, a round brick pigeon tower , a castle chapel and an ice cellar in one of the boscines .
literature
- Jacques Lestrambe: Le château dʼYville. In: Jules Adeline and others: La Normandie monumentale et pittoresque, Seine-Inferieure. Lemale & Cie., Havre 1893, pp. 227-229. (Digitized version)
- Noël Broëlec: La Normandie. Châteaux et Demeures. Minerva, Geneva 1995, ISBN 2-83-070306-6 , p. 40.
- Anne Chaussepied: Les châteaux de Boury-en-Vexin et dʼYville-sur-Seine. Mémoire de maîtrise, 2 volumes. François Rabelais University, Tours 1999.
- Sophie-Dorothée Delesalle: Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Seine-Maritime. Volume 1, Flohic, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-84234-017-5 , pp. 450-451.
- Denise and Marie-Claire Duval: Manoirs et châteaux au fil de lʼeau. Vallées de la Risle, de la Charentonne et du Guiel. Corlet, Condé-sur-Noireau 1996, ISBN 2-85480-569-0 . (Digitized version) .
- Claude Frégnac: Merveilles des châteaux de Normandie. Hachette, Paris 1966, pp. 14-19.
- Philippe Seydoux: Châteaux des Pays de lʼEure. Éditions de la Morande, Paris 1987, ISBN 2-902091-13-3 , p. 95.
- Henry Soulange-Bodin: Les Châteaux de Normandie. 2nd Edition. Van Oest, Paris 1949, pp. 98-100.
Web links
- Castle website (English, French)
- Entry of the castle in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry of the castle in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ^ Claude Frégnac: Merveilles des châteaux de Normandie. 1966, p. 15.
- ↑ a b Jacques Lestrambe: Le château d'Yville. 1893, p. 227.
- ↑ a b c d Jacques Lestrambe: Le château dʼYville. 1893, p. 228.
- ↑ a b c Henry Soulange-Bodin: Les Châteaux de Normandie. 1949, p. 100.
- ^ Claude Frégnac: Merveilles des châteaux de Normandie. 1966, p. 18.
- ↑ a b le Château d'Yville - un Monument Historique du 18e siècle en Normandie. History of the property on the castle website, accessed October 12, 2018.
Coordinates: 49 ° 23 ′ 50.5 ″ N , 0 ° 52 ′ 41.9 ″ E