Les Grandes ecuries near the Château de Chantilly, Chantilly, Oise, France
The Château de Chantilly is a historic French château located in the town of Chantilly, Oise, 50 kilometres north of Paris. The site comprises two attached buildings: the Petit Château, built around 1560 for Anne de Montmorency, and the Grand Château, which was destroyed during the French Revolution and rebuilt in the 1870s. The château is owned by the Institut de France, which received it from Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale. A historic monument since 1988, it is open to the public. The château's art gallery, the Musée Condé, houses one of France's finest collections of paintings. It specialises in French paintings and book illuminations of the 15th and 16th centuries. The estate's connection with the Montmorency family began in 1484. The first mansion (no longer in existence, now replaced by the Grand Château) was built, between 1528 and 1531, for Anne de Montmorency by Pierre Chambiges. The Petit Château was also built for him, around 1560. In 1632, after the death of Henri II de Montmorency, it passed to his nephew, the Grand Condé, who inherited it through his mother, Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency. Molière's play Les Précieuses ridicules received its first performance here in 1659. Madame de Sévigné relates that when King Louis XIV of France visited there in 1671, François Vatel, the maître d'hôtel to the Grand Condé, committed suicide when he feared the fish would be served late. The collection includes important works of the cabinetmaker André-Charles Boulle. The original mansion was destroyed during the French Revolution. It was repaired modestly by Louis Henri II Prince of Condé, but the entire property was confiscated from the Orléans family between 1853 and 1872, during which interval it was owned by Coutts, an English bank. Chantilly was entirely rebuilt, between 1875 and 1882 by Henri d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale (1822–1897). In 1889 the Chateau was bequeathed to the Institut de France as a price for the Duc d'Aumale's return from political exile.
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Location: Chantilly, Oise, France
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