Castle of Arc-in-Barrois

The castle of Arc-in-Barrois is located on the commune of Arc-in-Barrois in Haute-Marne, to 24 km of Chaumont (prefecture of the Haute-Marne) and with 15km of the exit of the A5 (left Chaumont-Semoutiers). The castle dates from XIXème S. (1845), it is built with the site of a feudal castle destroyed with the Révolution in 1793.

Presentation

The current castle was built about 1845 by the princess Adélaïde of Orleans, younger sister by the king of the French Louis-Philippe Ier. To died from this one, in 1847, the castle returned to its godson the prince de Joinville. The shells of the current home dates from XVIIème S., the large staircase will date from the time when Nicolas of Hospital was owner of the castle (XVIIIème S.). The home has however sudden of multiple transformation in the years 1840, when the castle belonged to Adélaïde of Orleans, sister of Louis-Philippe Ier. The two fore-parts of the home and the landscaped garden the belong to this period.

History

The field of Arc-in-Barrois belonged in 1622 to Nicolas of Hospital, duke of Vitry, it was bought in 1679 with his/her son by the count de Morstein who yielded it in 1693 to Louis Alexandre of Bourbon, count de Toulouse. His/her son Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, duke of Penthièvre inherited the field. Passed the pangs of the Revolution, the field was restored in 1814 with the girl of the duke of Penthièvre, Louise Marie Adélaïde of Bourbon, which had married in 1769 Louis Philippe, duke of Orleans. The girl of the latter, Adelaide of Orleans (sister of Louis-Philippe Ier), inherited and rebuilt it the current castle with the site of old. She and bequeathed it by will to her godson the prince de Joinville.

During the First World War, the castle is placed at the disposal of wounded face of Verdun.

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