Château de Pierrefonds
Castle of Pierrefonds is a originally from the Middle Ages castle, in the 19th century by Eugène Viollet -le- Duc for Napoleon III. reconstructed as a private residence and has been removed.
The castle stands in Pierrefonds in Oise, on the southeastern edge of the forest of Compiègne, north of Paris. Since 1848 it stands as a monument historique a historical monument.
History
A castle is detectable at this point in the 12th century. 1392 brought King Charles VI. the county of Valois to the Pierrefonds was part of the duchy and gave it to his brother Louis d' Orléans. 1393-1407 then the castle was rebuilt and expanded for the latter. Director of this project was the court architect, Jean le Noir.
In March 1617, the castle was besieged and occupied by troops of Cardinal Richelieu. The then lord of the manor François- Annibal d' Estrées, the brother of Gabrielle d' Estrées, was a member of a group of discontented French nobleman, the. Against the young King Louis XIII rebelled and were led by Henri II de Bourbon. The castle was then largely but not completely destroyed.
The complex of buildings was more than 200 years ruin. Napoleon Bonaparte acquired it in 1810 for less than 3000 francs. In August 1832, the citizens of King Louis Philippe gave a banquet here on the occasion of the marriage of his daughter Louise, Leopold I of Belgium. Jean -Baptiste Camille Corot painted the ruins multiply 1834-1866.
Louis- Napoléon Bonaparte, later Emperor Napoleon III. , Visited the ruins of 1850. 1857 he was Eugène Viollet- le -Duc, the order for the reconstruction and restoration. In 1861 he expanded the project. On the basis of the existing ruins of an imperial residence should be created. Six years after the death of Viollet- le -Duc in 1885 it came to the final stop of the Work that by the fall of Napoleon III. had been interrupted.
The Grade II listed castle is now often used as a backdrop for filming, for example, for the film "The Man in the Iron Mask " with Leonardo DiCaprio, the time for the BBC Merlin series - The new adventure.