Château de Maisons
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Build to suit your wealth. In 1633, René de Longueil (1597-1677), a high-ranking member of the Paris parliament, decided to build a castle worthy of his rank on his family's vast estate at Maisons-sur-Seine (now Maisons-Laffitte). The "château", a vacation residence, was part of a strategy of social uplift for his family and had to be sufficiently sumptuous to welcome the king, a close ...
Maisons-Laffitte is an affluent suburb northwest of Paris. It is famous for the Château de Maisons-Laffitte and its gardens which were turned into a residential Garden City (the Parc de Maisons-Laffitte) during the 19th century.
Maisons-Laffitte is a commune in the Yvelines department in the northern Île-de-France region of France. It is a part of the affluent outer suburbs of northwestern Paris, 18.2 km (11.3 mi) from its centre.
Maisons-Laffitte (French: [mɛzɔ̃.lafit] ) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. References
Le château de Maisons [2], communément appelé château de Maisons-Laffitte, à l'origine château de Maisons-sur-Seine [réf. nécessaire], situé à Maisons-Laffitte dans le département des Yvelines, est considéré comme un chef-d'œuvre de l'architecture civile du XVII e siècle.
Situated on the banks of the Seine and close to the forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the Château de Maisons in Maisons-Laffitte was built between 1640 and 1650 by the architect François Mansart for René de Longueil, Superintendent of Finances to Louis XIV.
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