- Type
- Palace / château
- Built
- c. 1875 · 19th century
- Site origins
- 1386 per Wikidata – an earlier stronghold or first mention
- Location
- Hauts-de-France, France
- Style
- eclectic architecture
- Architect
- Jean Bullant, Honoré Daumet
- Coordinates
- 49.1939°, 2.4858°
History
In 1386 the chancellor Pierre d'Orgemont built a fortified castle here on a rock surrounded by water. In the 16th century the estate belonged to Constable Anne de Montmorency, for whom Jean Bullant built the Petit Château alongside around 1560. From the 17th century Chantilly was the seat of the princes of Condé; the Grand Condé had André Le Nôtre lay out the gardens, and the monumental Great Stables followed in the 18th century. The Grand Château was demolished after the Revolution and rebuilt around 1875–1882 by the Duke of Aumale, son of King Louis-Philippe. In 1884 he bequeathed the entire estate and its collections to the Institut de France.
What to see
The Musée Condé holds France's largest collection of old master paintings after the Louvre, with works by Raphael, Poussin and Ingres, hung exactly as the duke arranged them, as his will required. You can see the princely apartments and the library with priceless manuscripts. Around the château lie Le Nôtre's gardens with their canals, an Anglo-Chinese garden with a hamlet, and the Great Stables, now home to a horse museum.
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