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Visiting ChantillyCastle, Condé Museum, Gardens & Great Stables
Drawn at the end of the seventeenth century by André Le Nôtre for the Grand Condé, the parterre à la française of Chantilly offers the most
dazzling view points of the visit
The library And archives of the Château de Chantilly in
figures: 44,000 ancient books including 700
incunables; 1500 manuscripts from which there
are 500 illuminated
The woodwork in the room were carried out under the direction of Jean Aubert in 1720 for the Duke of Bourbon (1692-1740)
The large chest of drawers with golden bronzes was commissioned by King Louis XVI to his room at Versailles
The Room of the Prince
The Grand Cabinet Corner
This corner piece is part of the apartment of the Prince of Condé,
decorated to 1720 White and gold
paneling, patterned relating to hunting, are
characteristic of the early eighteenth
century
On the mantelpiece, a pendulum Louis XIV
The Monkey Room “Singerie”
Charming boudoir dated 1737, formerly
attributed to Watteau, entirely decorated with
murals of Christophe Huet, Great Singerie
represents a superfluous decoration
of monkeys and baboons Chinese,
fashionable at this time
The Action Gallery of Monsieur Le Prince (or Battle Gallery)
The Grand Condé ordered the painter Sauveur Le
Conte, specialist in military painting, a series of eleven
paintings of its major military actions and had
given specific directions for their implementation
He died in 1686 while the work, which lasted from 1686 to 1692, had barely
begun
Furniture Georges Jacob commissioned by Louis XVI
for the Salon des Jeux de Saint-Cloud (1787) The white and gold
paneling are characteristic of the early eighteenth
century
The Music Room
Deer ‘s Gallery
It was a huge dining room reception of the Duke of Aumale, was built between 1875 and 1880 by the architect Honoré Daumet
The Picture Gallerie
It is a large room with beveled edges, lit by a
glass roof; works are presented
"frame to frame" on the walls of a Pompeian red,
depending on the format, without
chronological logic
The Rotonde
At the end of the gallery, reached by a staircase is the rotunda, on the ground, a mosaic from excavation in Pompeii
depicts a scene from chasse
Devoted to the collection of portraits of
the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,
notably from the entourage of Clouet
father and son
LogisRoom Clouet
Dedicated to St. Louis, was built in 1882 by
architect Honoré Daumet at the request of the Duke of Aumale, more or less where the old chapel stood before
the Revolution
The chapel of the Hearts of the Princes of Condé
It is home to the hearts of the
princes of Condé, beginning with
Henry II de Bourbon-Condé.
The last heart that was laid from Louis
d'Orléans, eldest son of the Duke of Aumale, he died of
yellow fever in Australia in 1866
It s a double chapel
The stained glass windows
dating from 1544
Date of the reconstruction of the Grand Castle in 19th century by architect Honoré Daumet. It is
lavishly decorated with marble floors
The hall of Honor
Located at the heart of the château,
under the vaults of the former kitchens
Were built by the architect Jean Aubert at the request of Louis-Henri de Bourbon,
Prince de Conde , legend said he thought himself
reincarnated as a horse and wanted therefore be worthy
of his rank. He left France one of the architectural
masterpieces of the eighteenth century
The Great Stables
It runs at the side of the stables
Racetrack of Chantilly
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Music: Bizet - Grand Valse de Concert pour piano
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