The Château de Maisons-Laffitte (previously Château de Maisons), designed by François Mansart from 1630 to 1651, is a prime example of French baroque architecture and a reference point in the history of French architecture. The château is located in Maisons-Laffitte, a northwestern suburb of Paris, in the department of Yvelines, Île-de-France.
The family of Longueil, long associated with the Parlement de Paris, had been in possession of part of the seigneurie of Maisons since 1460, and a full share since 1602. Beginning in 1630, and for the next decades, René de Longueil devoted the fortune inherited by his wife, Madeleine Boulenc de Crévecœur to the construction of a magnificent château. By 1649 he was able to spend the summer months in his new house, but works on the outbuildings continued after that date. Louis XIV visited Maisons in April 1651.
The attribution to François Mansart was common knowledge among contemporaries. Charles Perrault reported its reputation: "The château of Maisons, of which he [Mansart] had made all the buildings and all the gardens, is of such a singular beauty that there is not a curious foreigner who does not go there to see it, as one of the finest things that we have in France." Nevertheless, the sole surviving document mentioning Mansart's name is a payment of 20,000 livres from Longueil in 1657, apparently occasioned by the final completion of the château.
At the death of René de Longueil, in 1677, the château passed to his heirs until 1732, and then in succession to the marquise de Belleforière, then to the marquis de Soyécourt. In 1777 it became the property of Louis XVI's brother the comte d'Artois, who carried out important interior transformations under the direction of his house architect François-Joseph Bélanger. These works were interrupted in 1782 for lack of funds. Maisons ceased to be kept up.
Confiscated during the Revolution as "national goods", the château was sold in 1798 to an army provisioner, M. Lauchère, again in 1804 to maréchal Jean Lannes, and finally in 1818, to the Parisian banker Jacques Laffitte. Starting in 1834, Lafitte proceeded to develop the surrounding park as building lots; he tore down the fine stables and sold them as construction materials. After his daughter, the princesse de la Moskowa, sold the château in 1850, it passed to M. Thomas de Colmar, and to the painter William Tilman Grommé, who demolished the entrance gateway to the forecourt and enclosed the remaining space with a wrought iron grille brought from the Château de Mailly in Picardy. Grommé died in 1900. In his last will, he donated his whole property to the city of Vyborg, which decided to keep his art collection but sell the château.
In 1905, the State purchased the château to save it from demolition. It was classified as a monument historique in 1914.
The castle comes with its own POI.
This pack also contains aditional mods for the city of Maisons-Laffitte:
-Hippodrome de Maisons-Laffitte: opened in 1878 by Joseph Oller, inventor of the pari-mutuel machine, it sits on 92 hectares that belonged to the wealthy banker Jacques Laffitte with a 4 680 m grass track. The straight line of more than 2000 m is the longest in Europe with that of the Rowley Mile Course of Newmarket ( Suffolk , England).
-Eglise Saint-Nicolas: This church was built from 1867 to 1872 on the land of one of the old cemeteries, donated by the city. It was designed by the architect Eugène Millet.
This pack does NOT contain a full photogrammetry extract of the city in order to keep acceptable size and performances for lower configurations.
Complementary mods:
-Château de la Chasse: https://flightsim.to/file/18636/chteau-de-la-chasse
-Cergy - Tour du Belvedère and other landmarks: https://flightsim.to/file/16463/cergy-tour-du-belvedere-and-other-landmarks
-Versailles - Domaine de Trianon, Grandes Ecuries and other landmarks: https://flightsim.to/file/13766/versailles-domaine-de-trianon-grandes-ecuries-and-other-landmarks
-Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye: https://flightsim.to/file/13186/chateau-de-saint-germain-en-laye
-Louveciennes - Aqueduc de Marly, Château Louis XIV and other landmarks: https://flightsim.to/file/15868/louveciennes-aqueduc-de-marly-chateau-louis-xiv-an-other-landmarks
-Arcades de Buc: https://flightsim.to/file/6552/arcades-de-buc
-Boulogne-Billancourt -La Seine Musicale and other landmarks: https://flightsim.to/file/14629/boulogne-billancourt-la-seine-musicale-and-other-landmarks
Habitant à Maisons-Laffitte j'approuve à 100% il est superbement bien fait !
3 years ago
CryptoXs
Je te salue bien bas pour tous tes apports qui redonnent vie à des lieux imbuvables dans MFS.
Encore merci à toi mv46.
3 years ago
HB37
Un grand merci à toi. L' Île de France va continuer à s'enrichir de tous ces apports
3 years ago
Jayce