Beauté-sur-Marne
The castle Beauté -sur -Marne (also called Beauté -lez- Paris ) was a royal country palace at Vincennes. Today the area is part of the city of Nogent -sur- Marne.
King Charles V of the way - he reigned from 1364 to 1380 - was restored in search of rest and relaxation away from the court of Vincennes the building. If you had left the drawbridge and the perimeter wall behind you, you came into a garden with a source. The country castle itself consisted of a large tower where each floor corresponding to a room. On the first floor there was the Chambre des Évangelistes, in which the king slept. Here he had also housed his library. On the second floor was an altar on which the exhibition could be read.
The Beauté castle was not intended to receive the Queen Jeanne de Bourbon, for Charles V in 1375, the Manoir de Plaisance by his brother Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, acquired and after whom the city of Neuilly- Plaisance has its name. Louis I, Duke of Anjou, another brother of the king, also a mansion built in the vicinity of which, however, no trace can be found.
In 1378, Emperor Charles IV came to visit to France; in a time when the British had taken the hostilities and Christianity are two popes faced. It was a diplomatic mission as an attempt to strengthen relations between the two monarchs. A manuscript, which is located in the Bibliothèque nationale de France shows Charles V, as he receives the Emperor and his son Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia. The emperor resided from 12 to 16 January in the castle Beauté -sur- Marne, where Charles V went to see him at Vincennes from every day. Christine de Pizan writes: "À l'Empereur beauté fu plusieurs jours et le Roy chascun jour l' aloit visiter et en secret parloient longuement. " ( German: "In Beauté, the Emperor remained several days, and the king came to visit him every day to long to speak secretly with him. " ) On 16 January, the Emperor and the French king traveled further on Manoir de Plaisance.
King Charles V died in Beauté Castle on 16 September 1380th After the building fell prey to oblivion. Only when Charles VII there in 1448 his mistress Agnès Sorel as a gift and they made thus to Dame de Beauté, was the talk of the buildings again. Enguerrand de Monstrelet writes: " Et comme entre les belles estoit tenue pour la plus belle du monde fut appelee 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 as it was kept under the Fair for the most beautiful in the world and therefore Mademoiselle de Beauté mentioned, but also because the king had given her for life the house Beauté in Paris ").
An engraving from 1610 still shows the tower of Beauté, the 1626 Richelieu was finally torn down.
During the construction of a railway line 62 tiles were found out of the castle, which represent an artistic ensemble, and are located today in the Musée Carnavalet in Paris.
Beauté -sur -Marne in the literature
Sur tous les lieux et plaisans agréables Que l' on en ce monde pourroit trouver, Edifiés de manors convenables, Gais et jolis, pour vivre et demourer Que c'est à la fin du boys De Vincennes, que faire ly fit roys Charles - que Dieu donne paix, joye et santé! - Son fils aîné, Dalphin de Viennois, Donna le nom à ce lieu de Beauté.
Among all pleasing and pleasant places The one can find in this world Built of appropriate buildings, Clear and beautiful, to live and live This is at the end of the forest From Vincennes, build that made the king Karl - the God of peace, joy and health giving! - His eldest son, the Dauphin of Viennois, Was this place the name Beauté.
Ballade by Eustache Deschamps (1346-1406)