Château de Champs-sur-Marne

The Castle of Champs-sur - Marne, erected in the 18th century noble residence is in the very center of the department of Seine -et -Marne, 30 kilometers east of Paris. Its most famous resident was ( but only for a little more than a year) 1757/59 Madame de Pompadour. The castle was the 1935-1974 State Guest House of the Republic of France.

In the main building parts of the movie Marie -Antoinette by Sofia Coppola filmed. In the outbuildings of the National Research Laboratory of historical monuments is housed. After extensive restoration, the castle building end-June 2013 were made ​​available to the public again. The 85 -acre park to the public for visits is open.

History

The construction of the castle started in 1701 - towards the end of the reign of Louis XIV - by the architect Pierre Bullet on behalf of the court - arms suppliers Charles Renouard de la Touanne, in 1703 temporarily interrupted after the owner was gone bankrupt. The son of the architect, Jean -Baptiste Bullet de Chamblain was able to continue the construction work, as the landowner Paul Poisson de Bourvallais whose Paris mansion is the current seat of the French Ministry of Justice, the property, including the building shell ruin bought. The year 1706 is the year of completion of the castle.

Madame de Pompadour lived there from July 1757 to January 1759 for 12,000 livres a year in rent and was in this period a lot of money for the interiors, mainly for paintings and frescoes of the famous animal painter Christophe Huet. The Parisian banker Baron Louis Cahen d' Anvers acquired the property in 1895 and had carried out a first overall renovation. His daughter Irène Cahen d' Anvers was married from 1892 until their divorce in 1901 with the famous art collector Baron Moïse de Camondo, the Paris mansion in the Rue de Monceau 63 is a famous museum of decorative arts today. The collection is the memory of the only son of the couple, Nissim de Camondo, dedicated, who died as a pilot in the First World War. 1935 bequeathed to the son of Louis, Charles Cahen d' Anvers, the castle of the French state, who used it until 1974 as a guest house for state visitors. The lack of funds for the maintenance of the castle meant that its status since more and more aggravated.

Since a larger building damage that was caused on 20 September 2006 by a ceiling collapse, the castle is closed to the public. After a general renovation, the castle open to the public again since June 2013.

Garden

The gardens were created by Paul Poisson de Bourvallais, who created a French garden with book edges. The concept came from Claude Desgots, André Le Nôtre 's nephew.