Le château de Nogent-le-Roi est un château situé à Nogent-le-Roi, commune du département français d'Eure-et-Loir.
Historique
Pierre de Brézé fit construire un château fort au milieu du xve siècle sur l'emplacement d'un ancien château lorsque le roi de France, Charles VII, lui céda la seigneurie. Ce château fut détruit sous la Révolution et le château actuel date de 1863 et fut construit par Alfred Chapelain dans un style néo Louis XIII. Il reste de l'ancien château un mur de courtine et deux tours carrées.
Les vestiges de la forteresse médiévale, ainsi que l'éolienne pour l'alimentation en eau datant du Second Empire, sont inscrits au titre de monument historique depuis 1993.

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The Château de Maintenon is a château, developed from the original castle, situated in the commune of Maintenon in the Eure-et-Loir département of France. It is best known as being the private residence of the second spouse of Louis XIV, Madame de Maintenon.
The castle has been classified as a Monument historique since 1944 by the French Ministry of Culture.
Description
Construction
The construction of the castle began in the 13th and ended in roughly the 18th century. In the early 16th century it was purchased by Louis XII's treasurer Jean Cottereau, who transformed the castle into a country house. In the 17th century it was rebuilt for Madame de Maintenon, who purchased the estate in 1674.
The château's main features are the keep, constructed in the 13th century, and the principal corps de logis, flanked by three round towers, one at the avant-cour and the others at the bridge across the moat. The east and west wings frame a cour d'honneur, beyond which is the moat filled by the waters of the Eure, and, beyond, the parterre and park. The picturesque massing of the varied towers and roofs pleased François-René de Chateaubriand who found its special character was like that of an abbey or an old town, "with its spires and steeples, grouped at hap-hazard".
At the far end of the gardens is the aqueduct, crossing the Canal de l'Eure, also known as the canal de Louis XIV, ordered by Louis XIV. Its colossal scale impressed Chateaubriand, who said that it was "a work worthy of the Caesars". It was constructed by the Marquis de Vauban between 1685 and 1690 in order to transport water from the Eure River to the gardens and fountains at the Château de Versailles.
In the 17th century there was an orangerie constructed as well as stables.
Interior
The interior has been restored, and furniture and decoration can be seen.
The petits appartements (situated on the first floor of the corps de logis) include:
a passage leading to the bedroom of Madame de Maintenon, an antechamber, and a private oratory
the bedroom of the maréchal de Noailles, also preceded by an antechamber.
The grands appartements (part of the round tower) include:
two salons decorated in the Chinese style
the salon du Roi, Louis XIV's bedroom when he stayed at Maintenon as guest of his secret wife
a 19th-century billiard room
a library in the style Napoléon III, the old library of Madame de Maintenon;
a portrait gallery showing painting of the House of Noailles, who inherited the property at the death of Madame de Maintenon in 1718; in the gallery there is a cenotaph in her honour.
The other towers is not open to visitors.
Gardens and aqueduct
The main parterre was designed by the famous landscape architect André Le Nôtre who also worked at Versailles, Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Marly. For many years, the parterre had two interlacing "L"'s, in honour of Louis XIV. In 2013, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of André Le Nôtre, the garden was reconstructed in its initial form of a "french formal garden". Two allées, given modern names in honour of Le Nôtre and Racine, border the Eure river.
At the far end, cutting through the gardens, is the aqueduct built from 1685 to supply the fountains of the park of the Palace of Versailles. The project meant that water was diverted from the Eure river some 80 kilometres (50 mi) away. The arches of the structure reach a height of 60 feet. Vauban was in charge of the works.
The aqueduct had to have 47 arcades to the first row, 195 arcades to the second and 390 to the third one. The wars of Louis XIV prevented the work's completion.
It is also classified as a Monument historique since 1875 by the French Ministry of Culture.
History
Succession of owners and inhabitants
Famille de Maintenon
End of the 10th century : Avesgaud I; first Lord of Maintenon (seigneur de Maintenon);
From 1028: Germond I, son of the above;
Cited from 1053: Avesgaud II, son of the above;
Cited from 1083: Germond II, son of the above;
Cited from 1086 to 1120: Mainier, son of the above;
Cited from 1123 to 1135 : Amaury I, son of the above;
Around 1150: Guillaume, son of the above;
Around 1180: Jean, son of the above;
From 1200 à 1237: Amaury II, son of the above;
Around 1240: Amaury III, son of the above;
1248: Hugues, son of the above;
Around 1260: Jean, brother of the above;
13th century : Amaury IV, son or nephew of the above;
Beginning of the 13th century : X (died before 1331), son of the above;
Circa 1346 to 1373 : Amaury V, son of the above;
End of the 13th century : Thibaud, son of the above;
Around 1473: Jean, son of the above;
Around 1485: Robert, son of the above;
At the end 1497: Amaury Loresse, écuyer
Cottereau Family
At the end of 1503, Jean Cottereau;
Angennes Family
1526: Jacques d’Angennes ( – 1562), seigneur de Rambouillet, married Isabeau ( – 1554), daughter of the above;
Before 1573: Louis d’Angennes (1536 – after 1601), First marquis de Maintenon, baron de Meslay, seigneur de La Moutonnière, Moutier and of La Villeneuve, son of the previous, married Françoise d'O;
1607: Charles, marquis de Maintenon, baron de Meslay, seigneur de La Moutonnière, du Moutier et de La Villeneuve, son of the previous, married Françoise, Lady of Blainville, Salvert and of Saint-Gervais;
1640: Louis, marquis de Maintenon, baron then marquis de Meslay, seigneur de La Moutonnière, of Moutier, and La Villeneuve, de Blainville and of Saint-Gervais, son of the above, married Marie Le Clerc du Tremblay;
Second part of the 17th century : Charles François (1648–1691), marquis de Maintenon, épouse Catherine du Poyet de Poincy.
Famille d'Aubigné
1674: Madame de Maintenon (1635–1719) bought the marquisate from the previous;
1677: Madame de Montespan gave birth to her youngest daughter, future Duchess of Orléans;
1689 and 1691: Racine wrote the tragedies Esther and Athalie for the Maison royale de Saint-Louis;
House of Noailles
1698: Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné (1684–1739), niece of Madame de Maintenon, wife of Adrien Maurice de Noailles (1678–1766) ; Madame de Maintenon willed it to her niece;
1766: Louis de Noailles (1713–1793),son and heir of the above, he married in 1737 to Catherine de Cossé-Brissac.
1793: Jean de Noailles (1739–1824), son of the above; he married in 1755 to Louise d'Aguesseau;
1824: Paul de Noailles (1802–1885), great nephew of the above; he married Alice de Rochechouart de Mortemart
1885: Jules Charles Victurnien de Noailles, duc de Noailles (1826–1895), son of the above; married in 1851 Clotilde de La Ferté-Meun;
1895: Adrien de Noailles, duc de Noailles (1869–1953), son of the above; married in 1892 Yolande de Luynes ;
Jean Maurice Paul Jules de Noailles, duc d’Ayen (1893–1945), their son, died in action; he had married in 1919 Solange de Labriffe;
1953 : Geneviève de Noailles (1921–1998), daughter of Jean, heiress of the château; she married in 1947 Jean Gaston Amaury Raindre.
Fondation du château de Maintenon
1983 : Geneviève and Jean Raindre create the "Fondation Mansart" and bequeath the property to this foundation.
2005 : The foundation transfers the management to the Conseil général d'Eure-et-Loir.

Château de Maintenon

The Donjon de Houdan (Houdan Keep) is a medieval fortified tower in the commune of Houdan in the Yvelines département of France.
Architecture
Constructed around 1120-1137 by Amaury III of Montfort, the keep or donjon is the only vestige of the medieval castle of Houdan. It is a massive tower isolated from the town in the west, and is now used as a water tower.
The tower is cylindrical, 16 metres in diameter and 25 metres in height. It is flanked by four turrets 4.8 metres in diameter each at cardinal points on the central cylinder. The walls of the tower have an average thickness of three metres.
The tower consists of three levels: a ground floor, and two higher floors. The interior floors and roof have disappeared. An access door was located 6 metres above the ground level and once gave access to the mezzanine floor. Another entrance was located in one of the turrets.
The donjon is thought to have been one of the earliest experiments in improving flanking fire from the battlements (reduction of "dead ground"), and a transitional form between the rectangular keeps of the 11th to 12th centuries, and widespread adoption of cylindrical keeps in the 13th century. Other contemporary examples can be seen at Étampes and Provins.
History
1120–1137: construction of the keep
1840: classified as an official historical building (French: monument historique)
1880: installation of a 200 kilolitre cistern in the keep, transforming it into a water tower (French: château d'eau)
1903: acquisition of the keep by the town of Houdan, courtesy of the last private owner, a Dr. Aulet.
This tower has never been taken during its history.

Donjon de Houdan

The Château de Rambouillet, also known in English as the Castle of Rambouillet, is a château in the town of Rambouillet, Yvelines department, in the Île-de-France region in northern France, 50 km (31 mi) southwest of Paris. It was the summer residence of the Presidents of the French Republic from 1896 until 2009, and it is now managed by the Centre des monuments nationaux.
History
The château was originally a fortified manor dating back to 1368 and, although amputated of its eastern wing at the time of Napoleon, it still retains its pentagonal bastioned footprint. King Francis I died there, on 31 March 1547, probably in the imposing medieval tower that bears his name. Like the Hôtel de Rambouillet in Paris, the château was owned by Charles d'Angennes, the marquis de Rambouillet during the reign of Louis XIII. Avenues led directly from the park of the chateau into the adjacent game-rich forest. More than 200 square kilometres of forest remain, the remnant of the Forest of Rambouillet, also known as Forêt d'Yveline or Forêt de l'Yveline.
In 1783, the château became the private property of king Louis XVI, who bought it from his cousin, the duc de Penthièvre, as an extension of his hunting grounds. Queen Marie-Antoinette, who accompanied her husband on a visit in November 1783, is said to have exclaimed: "Comment pourrais-je vivre dans cette gothique crapaudière!" (How could I live in such a gothic toadhouse!) However, to induce his wife to like his new acquisition, Louis XVI commissioned in great secret the construction of the renowned Laiterie de la Reine, (the Queen's dairy), where the buckets were of Sèvres porcelain, painted and grained to imitate wood, and the presiding nymph was a marble Amalthea, with the goat that nurtured Jupiter, sculpted by Pierre Julien. A little salon was attached to the dairy itself, with chairs supplied by Georges Jacob in 1787 that had straight, tapering stop-fluted legs
During the French Revolution, the domain of Rambouillet became bien national, the chateau being emptied of its furnishings and the gardens and surrounding park falling into neglect.
During the reign of Napoleon I, Rambouillet was included in his liste civile (list of government-owned property at the disposal of the head of state). The emperor came several times to Rambouillet, the last being on the night of 29–30 June 1815, on his way to exile to Saint Helena. Among the reminders of Napoléon are the Pompeian style bathroom with its small bathtub and the exquisite balcony built to link the emperor's apartment to that of his second wife, the empress Marie-Louise. Another reminder of Napoléon was the splendid Allée de Cyprès chauves de Louisiane, a double-lined bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) avenue.
At the time of the Bourbon Restoration, Rambouillet was again included in the royal liste civile. Fifteen years after Napoleon I, Charles X's road to exile also started at Rambouillet. On 2 August 1830, he signed his abdication here in favour of his nine-year-old grandson, the Duke of Bordeaux. It took twenty minutes to talk his son, the Duke of Angoulême, into, reluctantly, countersigning the document, thus abandoning his rights to the throne of France in favor of his nephew.
From 1830 to 1848, the domain of Rambouillet, which had belonged to his grandfather, the duc de Penthièvre, was not included in Louis Philippe I's liste civile; however, begged to do so by the townspeople, the emperor Napoléon III, who reigned from 1852 to 1870, requested its inclusion in his.
After the fall of Napoleon III in 1870, which saw the beginning of the French Third Republic, the domain of Rambouillet was leased from 1870 to 1883 to the duc de la Trémoille. In February 1896, Rambouillet received a visit from President Félix Faure who then decided to spend his summers there with his family. Since, the château of Rambouillet has become the summer residence of France's Presidents of the Republic, who entertain, and used to invite to hunting parties many foreign dignitaries, princes and heads of state. As a part-time residence of the French president, it is sometimes referred to as the Palace of Rambouillet.
On 23 August 1944, two days before the liberation of Paris, General Charles de Gaulle arrived at Rambouillet and set up his headquarters in the chateau where, in the evening, he met General Philippe Leclerc who, at the head of his French 2nd Armored Division (2e Division blindée, more affectionately known in France as La Deuxième DB), had mission to liberate Paris. Part of the French 2nd Armored Division was to leave from Rambouillet at dawn the following day, on its march "to capture Paris". On August 25, around 2 p.m., "both wrought with emotion and filled with serenity", General de Gaulle left Rambouillet by car to enter "Paris libérée".
In November 1975, the first "G6" summit was organized in the château by French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing for the heads of the world's leading industrialized countries. Attending were: Gerald Ford (United States), Harold Wilson (United Kingdom), Aldo Moro (Italy), Takeo Miki (Japan) and Helmut Schmidt (West Germany).
The château de Rambouillet continues to be used as a venue for bilateral summits and, in February 1999, was host to the negotiations on Kosovo. (See Kosovo War.)
On 26 December 1999, Hurricane Lothar hit the northern half of France, wreaking havoc to forests, parks and buildings. The Forest of Rambouillet lost hundreds of thousands of trees, and among the over five thousand downed trees in the park of Rambouillet, was the handsome, historical Allée de Cyprès chauves de Louisiane, the bald cypress avenue planted in 1810.

Château de Rambouillet

Le château de la Couharde est un château situé à La Queue-les-Yvelines, en Île-de-France (France).
Histoire
Érigé au xve siècle, il est la propriété des Bréze, il revient par héritage à Diane de Poitiers avant de passer à Madame de Miramion, qui prête le domaine aux pères des missions étrangères.
Au xviie siècle, son oncle, le chancelier de Pontchartrain, fait réaliser de gros travaux et fait dessiner le parc par Le Nôtre, architecte des jardins de Louis XIV.
Le domaine passe de mains en mains et, à la fin du xixe siècle, il est acquis par Ernest May. Celui-ci décide de supprimer les douves et creuse une pièce d'eau, et il modernise la Couharde. Il passe ensuite à sa fille Annette May et son époux Christian Lazard. La propriété est vendue par la famille et laissé à l'abandon par les nouveaux propriétaires. La demeure, en très mauvais état, est ensuite vendue pour y réaliser un club-house de golf et le parc est transformé en parcours de golf.
Le château bénéficie de deux arrêtés d'inscription au titre des monuments historiques depuis les 26 novembre 1979 et 31 juillet 2001.

Château de la Couharde

Château de Bonnefontaine was built at the end of the 15th century and modified over time. Today the fortress is inhabited but its owners let down their guard for visitors longing to explore the 25 ha of landscaped grounds and gardens. Designed and created by well-known landscape gardeners Denis Bülher and Édouard André, the grounds are a typical example of late 19th century English gardens. Stroll around the vast open spaces, which offer sudden surprising perspectives framed by plants or copses. Giant sequoia, cypress and chestnut trees form a silent, majestic setting for this romantic green haven.
https://www.spottinghistory.com/view/3382/chateau-de-bonnefontaine/

Château de Bonnefontaine

Built in 1620, the château de la Ballue was, at the begining of the 19th century and in the middle of the twentieth, a priviledged place for the writers and the artists.Although la Ballue was left alone for 30 years – its formal gardens had returned to a wild meadow when in 1973 started their restoration – reinterpreted and with a new design,- they regain nowdays, their original nature besides a contemporary garden inspired by the 17th century baroque play with perpective and light and shadow.
Separated from the formal garden by the wisteria alley supported by 12 colums of taxus, the side garden was designed by two futurists architects François Hebert Stevens & Paul Maymont in the purest mannerist style.
An initiatory path, a green maze which can only be understood at the end of it, so man can have a global vision of it and which offers 13 surprises from the mysterious chamber to the musical one, from the one covered with fern, to the booby trap chamber then to the sented chamber, the green theatre to Diana’s temple, and the maze by itself.
Classical gardens created on the terrace facing south, in the XVIIth century, abandoned, turned into a patato field…
1973 : Creation by two futurist architects of. A diagonal garden of surprises by Paul Maymont, A classical garden by François-Hebert Stevens.
Union of modern geometrical movement and classical symbolism.
A labyrinth of path, play with perspectives & secret chambers.
1989-1995 : Gardens left alone. Everything returned wild and the trees growing high.
1996 : Gardens re-discovered by their new owners Marie-France Barrère & Alain Schrotter.
Playing with the growth of the trees that have become bare at the foot, add of a new vision & a new dimension.
Play with light & shadow, re-creation of some of the inner chambers adding more historical & intellectual references. Harmony in green, blue and white.
Add of side visions.
With passion and originality, expression and transmission of love for harmony between traditional architecture and contemporary art.
1999 : The gardens become a historical monument.
https://www.laballuejardin.com

Château de La Ballue

The Château d'Anet is a château near Dreux, in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France, built by Philibert de l'Orme from 1547 to 1552 for Diane de Poitiers, the mistress of Henry II of France. It was a gift from the king and was built on the former château at the center of the domains of Diane's deceased husband, Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet, Marshal of Normandy and Master of the Hunt.
The château is especially noted for its exterior, notably the statues of Diane de Poitiers as Diana, goddess of the hunt, by Jean Goujon and the relief by Benvenuto Cellini over the portal. Anet was the site of one of the first Italianate parterre gardens centered on the building's facade in France; the garden-designer in charge was Jacques Mollet, who trained his son at Anet, Claude Mollet, destined to become royal gardener to three French kings.
The château was built partly upon the foundations and cellar vaults of a feudal castle that had been dismantled by Charles V and was subsequently rebuilt as a Late Gothic manor of brick and stone.
The château was not pillaged during the French Revolution, but Diane de Poitiers' remains were removed to a pauper's ditch in the parish cemetery and the rich contents of the château, which were the property of King Louis XVI's cousin, Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, duc de Penthièvre, were sold at auction as biens nationaux. A large part of the château was subsequently demolished, but only after Alexandre Lenoir was able to salvage some architectural elements for his Musée des monuments français (presently situated in the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris). The elements were reinstalled at Anet after World War II. The restoration of the château itself, in pitiable condition, was due to comte Adolphe de Caraman, who purchased it in 1840 and undertook a colossal program of restoration. In 1851, the minister of the interior granted Anet the status of a monument historique. Under financial duress, Caraman sold the château in 1860 to Ferdinand Moreau, who continued the restoration, purchasing furnishings and works of art that were thought to be originally from the château. The set of tapestry hangings woven for the château, in Paris, to cartoons by Jean Cousin, forming a History of Diana in compliment to Diane de Poitiers, is now widely scattered; it set a precedent for suites of Diana-themed tapestries that remained popular into the 18th century.
The free-standing chapel of Anet, built to the left of the cour d'honneur in 1549-1552, is designed on a centralized Greek cross floor plan under a diagonally-coffered dome. Its facade has a porch of widely spaced paired Ionic columns between towers crowned by pyramidal spires.In 1581, Henri III and his mother Catherine de' Medici came to the chapel to attend the baptism of the infant son of Charles, duc d'Aumale.
There is also the mortuary chapel, built according to Diane de Poitiers' last wishes to contain her tomb, commissioned from Claude de Foucques by Diane's daughter, the Duchesse d'Aumale.
The property was owned, or at least occupied, by Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme.
The property belonged to many of Louis XIV's descendants: Louise-Françoise de Bourbon died here in 1743, she was a daughter of the famous illegitimate son of Louis XIV, the Duc du Maine. His sons the prince des Dombes and comte d'Eu lived here when away from Versailles. It was later owned by the fabulously wealthy duc de Penthièvre, first cousin of the prince and the comte.
The castle was used as a filming location in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball and 1976 film The Pink Panther Strikes Again.
The entry pavilion for Chateau d'Anet was the inspiration for the façade of Robert Venturi's 1966 Guild House for the Elderly in Philadelphia.

Château d'Anet

Le château de Béhoust est situé sur la commune de Béhoust dans le département des Yvelines, en France.
Localisation
Le château se trouve au cœur du village, le long de la route départementale D42 (Orgerus à l'ouest, Garancières à l'est), soit à une cinquantaine de kilomètres de Paris.
Histoire
Le château remonte au XIe siècle. Il fut démoli au Moyen Âge.
En 1767, le marquis François III de Lastic lança la construction de l'actuel château. Il fut construit dans un style totalement caractéristique du XVIIIe siècle. Il fut achevé en 1772. Cependant, deux ailes furent rajoutées au château en 1880. Ce château possède deux grandes écuries et un très grand parc. Il est aujourd'hui consacré à l'organisation de séminaires.
Il ne reste aujourd'hui comme vestiges du château du XIe siècle que les caves voutées.
Le château a fait l'objet d'une inscription au titre des monuments historiques par arrêté en date du 12 octobre 1976.
En 1986 y fut tourné Les Exploits d'un jeune Don Juan.