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| Château de Sceaux |
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The Château de Sceaux is
situated not far from Paris
in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine. It is very popular among the locals as a place to
escape from the crowds, to relax, have a stroll or a picnic. It’s only 10km
away from the city of Paris.
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| Château de Sceaux, cascades |
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| Château de Sceaux, the park |
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The present Château
was in the beginning built as a mansion for the family of Potier des Gesvres in
the 15th century. After that it was sold to Jean Baptiste Colbert,
the King Louis XIV’s minister of
finance, in 1670. He used the services of some the royal architects and
craftsmen, such as Claude and Charles Perrault and Antoine Lepautre, in order
to turn the building into a château that suits him.
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| Château de Sceaux, cascades |
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| Château de Sceaux, cascades |
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In 1683
his son Jean
Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seigneley, who was also Minister of the Navy
inherited Sceaux. He excavated the terraces and added some statues. After that
Andre le Notre / who also designed the gardens of Château de Versailles/ designed
the main axis and the other two secondary axis and all the descending series of
terraces that flow down and fill the octagonal basin.
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| Château de Sceaux, the park |
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| Château de Sceaux, the cascades |
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The Orangerie
was built by the architect Jules
Hardouin-Mansart and inaugurated by the King at a fete in 1685. Later in 1699, the château de Sceaux was sold to
Louis’s illegitimate son, the Duc du Maine. It was however his wife, Anne, the
dutchess du Maine that turned it into a salon where she hosted many fetes and
receptions with famous musicians. The salon at Sceaux was favourite place for
the young Voltaire. She has also the pavilion of the Menagerie built. Only the
foundations had left, however.
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| Château de Sceaux |
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Later, during
the French Revolution Château de Sceaux was confiscated and many objects were
sold. M. Lecomte, merchant of Saint-Malo
purchased the place. He demolished the original château and can you imagine –
crops were grown on Le Notre’s Terraces.
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| Château de Sceaux, masks by Rodin at the cascades |
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| Château de Sceaux |
The duc
de Trevise, who married M. Lecomte’s
daughter inherited the Château de Sceaux. He restored the park, the pavilion and
the Orangerie. He had the architect Augustin Théophile Quantinet to design the
château and Joseph-Michel
Le Soufaché to build it between the years of 1856-62.
The
heiress of Trevise, the Princess de Faucigny-Cystra planned to give the Château to property developers in
1922, though the mayor succeeded in protecting it and opened it to public.
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