The Château de Champs-sur-Marne, built in the early 18th century by Jean-Baptiste Bullet de Chamblain, is a superb example of Classical architecture. It has been lived in by a variety of eminent figures, including the Marchioness of Pompadour, the Princess of Conti and the Dukes of La Vallière. This listed national palace and historic monument is home to a fantastic collection of antique furniture and paintings.
The 85-hectare palace gardens figure on France's list of Remarkable Gardens and are indeed among the most beautiful in the Île-de-France region. Highlights are the French-style formal garden with its magnificent embroidery-like flowerbeds, the long perspective down towards the Marne and the landscaped garden, all of which are wonderful places for a wander.
The green-fingered among you mustn't miss the annual France-wide Rendez-vous aux Jardins event held on the first weekend in June when the country's public and private gardens are open to visitors.
18 km east of Paris, stands at the heart of a 85 hectare park Castle of Champs-sur-Marne. Built in the eighteenth century, follow one another illustrious tenants, the Dukes de la Valliere, Lévis and the Marquise de Pompadour. In 1895, Louis Cahen d'Anvers, a great collector passionate about the eighteenth century, asked the architect Destailleur restore the castle and appealed to Henry Duchene for the park.
Champs Castle, symbol of French elegance, inserted in a green arranged beautifully, the rooms tastefully decorated and harmony, whose collections are signed by the greatest cabinetmakers of the eighteenth century, shows an art of living gently, with fun and pleasure, where visitors are received as honored guests. Among these guests, more than 80 crews found the castle and its park in an exceptional setting. Examples include A Love of Swann Sclöndorff Wolker (1984), Colonel Chabert of Yves Angelo (1994), The King of the Alley nina companeez (1995) Ridicule by Patrice Leconte (1996), the walker of Champs-sur-Marne Robert Guédiguian (2004), Marie Antoinette Sofia Coppola (2006) and Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour Robin Davis (2006).
The walk in the garden between 85 ha park in the French and English park is a bucolic setting for this pleasure house of the eighteenth century.
The Champs-sur-Marne Castle found new luster with a monument largely restored, a tour circuit redesigned and enlarged, enhanced and restored collections, digital public reception tools. Fully handicapped accessible, the new trail also innovates in its mediation tools with fixed tablet computers in each room. This new device is available in three languages (French, English and Spanish) and supplemented with sign language videos for the public hearing loss.
