Château de Saint-Cloud

The castle of Saint- Cloud was a castle in the south-west of Paris. It was on the way from the French capital to Versailles between the two places Saint -Cloud and Sèvres.

History

The domain Saint-Cloud was since the Early Middle Ages in royal property and was sold in 1577 by Catherine de Medici in the Florentine banker Jérôme de Gondi. He had a present there at that time Hôtel demolish and build in its place a first lock with an L-shaped floor plan, to use it as a residence. For representative buildings were also terraced gardens.

After the building was remodeled in 1625 and embellished by the Archbishop of Paris, Jean -François de Gondi, it came only after his death in the possession of a B. d' Hervart before it the brother of the French king Louis XIV, Philippe d' Orléans, acquired. He let remodel and expand the facility by the architect Antoine Le Jules Hardouin -Mansart and Pautre. Philippe d' Orléans was followed as the owner of Marie Antoinette, Napoleon Bonaparte and Napoleon III.

1870, the castle was occupied during the Franco-German War on September 19, 1870 by Prussian and Bavarian troops and destroyed on 13 October of the same year by the French occupation troops from Paris during the Battle of Châtillon. 1891, the ruin was finally demolished.

Today is located on the grounds of the park of Saint -Cloud, which houses, among other things, the International Bureau of Weights and Measures.