Château de Neuilly
The château de Neuilly is a former château in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Its estate covered a vast 170-hectare park called "parc de Neuilly" which comprised all of Neuilly that is today to be found between avenue du Roule and the town of Levallois-Perret. It was built in 1751, and largely destroyed in 1848, except for one wing which was integrated into a new convent building in 1907.[1]
History
Ancien Regime
The parc was at some point divided into two very unequal parts, on which two châteaux were built :
- the château de Villiers to the east, seems to have only been a bourgeoise "grande maison", despite having 24 rooms and a beautiful garden divided from the parc de Neuilly proper by a palisade. It was subsumed back into the parc in the first years of the 19th century ;
- the château de Neuilly, to the west, was built in 1751, on the site of a mid-17th century building, for Louis XV, who had acquired the property in 1741. Decorated in the Ionic order and raised on several terraces looking out over the Seine, the new building was the work of architect Jean-Sylvain Cartaud.
French Revolution
After the
king of Naples (1808), and all his goods reverted to being Imperial crown lands. Princess Pauline Borghèse, Napoleon's sister, thus received the property as a "dotation" and also held great fêtes there.[2] In 1814, the estate reverted to the restored Bourbon crown.[3]
July Monarchy
On 16 July 1819, the estate was acquired by the duc d'Orléans, the future
Philippe-Égalité, when duc de Chartres, had built in 1774 in Paris's Parc Monceau (also known as the "Folie de Chartres") (V arrondissement, Île de la Jatte).[1]
The
François and Antoine
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1848 and after
During the
Revolution of 1848, the château was burned and pillaged on 25 February 1848. All that survived was the north wing built by Murat, now occupied by the Congregation of the Sœurs Saint-Thomas de Villeneuve (52, boulevard d'Argenson).[4] Confiscated by Napoleon III in 1852 with the goods of the House of Orléans, the parc was divided into 700 lots which, after the creation of seven 30 metre-wide boulevards and nine streets limited to 15 metres wide, were sold in successive auctions from 1854.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Histoire de l'urbanisme à Neuilly
- ^ Archives de Paris carton: 6 AZ 1218 Brevet de donation du château de Neuilly et dépendances à la princesse Pauline, duchesse de Guastalla. 28 octobre 1808
- ^ Château de Neuilly. Domaine privé du roi, Paris, Imprimerie de Pihan Delaforest (Morinval), 1836 (text available on gallica archive)
- ^ Base Mérimée: Château de Neuilly, actuellement Couvent des Soeurs de Saint-Thomas-de-Villeneuve, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)