Castle of Holy-Suzanne (Mayenne)

The castle of Holy-Suzanne is a Château 17th century, Historic building since 1862, built in the medieval city of Holy-Suzanne between 1608 and 1610 - 1613 by Guillaume Fouquet of the Game preserve, and today property of the general advice of Mayenne.

History

In 1604, Guillaume Fouquet of the Game preserve, statesman and minister of Henri IV, buys with the first wife of the king, Marguerite de France (1553-1615) known as the Queen Margot , the ruins of the old fortress to transform the old castle into residential residence. This project is not completed, because the assassination of the king in 1610 brings gradually the forfeiture of Guillaume Fouquet of the Game preserve. It remains however of this period the home , a beautiful body of building in the purest style of the beginning of the 17th century.

Fouquet of the Game preserve repurchases the seigniory of Holy-Suzanne on September 16th 1604. There does not remain with Holy-Suzanne then " austres bastiments and residences that a wall belt with some turns and a stone mass in the shape of keep. (...) close relation which girdles walls and the aforementioned keep estoit a petitte house and a court called the Marye court, and ung small appenty with the length of icelle (...), in which petitte house remained Estienne Deslandes and Marie Arthuis his wife in the capacity as caretakers, and which the aforementioned suffers appenty servoit of kitchen and boullangerye ".

Fouquet buys Holy-Suzanne bus it " conceives to withdraw there and there to build buildings to place there with its family " , but its project concretizes only a few years later. It obtains from the king on January 31st 1608 the license to make build until the nap of 36000 pounds. It makes " then; to bastir the large body of home in the enclosure of the wall belt of the castle and in faict to ruin the small home like useless, condemns the old gate and builds with nine celluy which is now avecq the body of guard and the escuiryes; fact of making several large pillars (buttresses) stone around the aforementioned wall belt to soustenir it because it estoit split and swift to pull up in several endroictz and menaçoit ruisne, repairs all the external curtains, or against icelles faist to make to nine a wall towards the city, a postern avecq a body of guard and guérittes with all the towers, and refaist almost with nine the parapets, letout for the convenience, utility and seureté of known as the chasteau ".
Fouquet calls upon its architect of the Arrow, Louis Metezeau; it makes come, in complement of the stones of sandstone extracted on the spot, the micaceous chalk of Angers and the stones of ferrugineous of Bernay in the the Sarthe. It appreciably lowers the height of the ramparts in south-east, re-uses the base of the one of the grosses towers to build that of its new castle, remblaie in an important way the court between the old drawbridge and the postern of the iron door. The old drawbridge is unused, and the new gate of entry makes it possible to the entering visitors to discover majestueusement, with the proper perspective and of face, the frontage and the entry of the home.

Holy-Suzanne, become baronnie then marquisat, passes then, after the descent of Fouquet of the Game preserve, to the family of Champagne the Unpleasant ones, then with those of César Gabriel de Choiseul-Praslin and of Charles de Beauvau-Craon and finally with Ange Hyacinthe Maxence, baron de Damas. Consequently the castle is not transmitted any more by heritage, but by alienation (except 1865 with 1980 within the family of Vaulogé).

Owners of the home of Holy-Suzanne of Henri IV at our days

In 1594, Henri IV, which had inherited it his/her mother Jeanne d' Albret in 1572, gives the baronnie the Holyone in engagement to his wife Marguerite de France known as " the Queen Margot " , which will hold it ten years.

Guillaume Fouquet of the Game preserve (1560 - 1616) X 1. Catherine Foussard ; x2. Jeanne de Poix Widowed Girard. Guillaume Fouquet, lord of the Game preserve, repurchase in 1604 the engagement made with the queen Margot and transmits it to its descendants. It builds the castle of the Arrow and the home of that of Holy-Suzanne

Rene 1st Fouquet of the Game preserve (1586 - 1656) X Jeanne Girard , girl of Jeanne de Poix and Guy Girard (see Saint-Novel-the-Miss) .

Rene II Fouquet of the Game preserve (- 1697, died in duel)

Claude II Fouquet of the Game preserve (1635 - 1699), brother of Rene II, X Marie-Francoise de Froulay-Tessé , girl of Rene III of Froulay lord of Tessé , large of Spain, Marshal of France, and Marie-Francoise Aubert of Aunay. Louis XIV exchange of the grounds which the marshal of Tessé holds with Versailles and Marly against the royal grounds of Beaumont and Fresnay. The marshal of Tessé has fact then most of the province of Maine.

18th century

“Anonymous” of the Game preserve (1699 - 1714), Is born a few weeks after death from his/her father. Under supervision of the marshal of Tessé his grandfather, then of his Marie-Francoise mother, who remarie with Jean-François de Briqueville, lord of the Alfalfa

Catherine-Francoise of the Game preserve (v 1625 - 1661) X Hubert de Champagne Unpleasant , wire of Brandelis de Champagne , Marshal of France, and Anne de Feschal . Posthumous heiress.
Rene-Brandelys de Champagne Unpleasant (v 1645 - 1723) X Therese Royer of the Forging mills
Anne-Marie of Champagne Unpleasant (- 1783) X César Gabriel de Choiseul-Praslin , wire of Hubert de Choiseul and Henriette de Beauveau. Secretary of foreign affairs, with the Navy; General lieutenant, Ambassador .
Renaud-César de Choiseul-Praslin (1735 - 1791) X Guyonne Marguerite de Durfort de Lorges , girl of Guy-Louis de Durfort, duke of Lorges, and Marie Butault de Marsan.
Antoine-César de Choiseul-Praslin (1756 - 1808 X Charlotte Antoinette O' Brien de Clare , girl of Charles O' Brien de Clare, count de Thomond, Marshal of France, and Marie-Genevieve Gaultier de Chiffreville. Par of France, deputy of the nobility for the seneschalsy of Maine to the General states of 1789, brigadier in 1791, senator (1799 - 1808), buried with the the Pantheon. His/her brother César-Hippolyte de Choiseul-Praslin (1757 - 1793), count of Holy-Suzanne (X Joséphine de Choiseul d' Esquilly) sees his castle of the Arrow devastated during the Révolution and dies in 36 years.

19th century

Lucie-Virginia de Choiseul-Praslin (1794 - 1834), girl of Antoine-César, X prince Charles de Beauvau-Craon , Large of Spain. Wire of prince Marc-Etienne de Beauveau-Craon, chamberlain of Napoleon i, and Nathalie de Rochechouart . Sale of the castle in 1820.

Baron de Damas (1795 - 1862) X Sigismonde Charlotte de Hautefort , girl of the count Armand-Louis de Hautefort and Julie-Alix de Choiseul-Praslin (sister of Antoine-César and César-Hippolyte). The Baron of Damas was Minister for the war then foreign affairs . Sale in 1855 .

Helene Ollivier (1788 - 1873) widowed of Edouard Delespinasse (manager of the castle, Mayor of Holy-Suzanne in 1814 - 1815). Sale in 1865.

20th century

Marie-Louise Nelly of Girardin (1822 - 1914) X Henri Louis Barb of Vaulogé

François Barb of Vaulogé (1845 - 1928) X Therese de Menou

Renee Therese Barb of Vaulogé (1878 -) X Filipe Grua-Talamanca , prince of Carini

Marie-Beatrice de Carini (1917 -) X count Scévole Pocquet de Livonnière . Sale in 1969.

SCI Marc and Aude Fonquernie . Sale in 1980 . Aude Fonquernie, doctor, psychoanalyst, founder of the House on the World with Mazille, and of Cluny, ways of Europe to the Abbey of Cluny.

Intercommunity association and departmental for the development of tourism, represented by the Common of co.-Suzanne . Sale in 1999 .

21e century

Department of the Mayenne

Structure

the castle is characteristic of the time Henri IV, transition style between the Renaissance and the classical architecture: roof with strong slate slopes of Angers, frontage rythmée by spans, pediments capping the attic windows point out the Rebirth. But the sobriety of the decoration, in particular in embossings framing bays, is typical classical architecture (sobriety of the decoration) even if the house of staircase of entry, conceived like a loggia leading to the interior staircase, comes to moderate the stripped character of this frontage.
the building includes/understands four levels: an arched basement reserved for the office, with staircase of direct access to court; a ground floor, a stage of rooms of reception and rooms, and roofs remarkable (frame in the shape of ship hull reversed). Mullioned windows.

superposition of the orders (doric in bottom, ionic on the first floor, Corinthian in top).

Old bakery and old stable (more recently become sheep-fold ).

As for the old castle of dwelling, one believes in 1772 to see of them traces as well as vault in the wall bordering the new castle, where were still a square window and another, geminated lancets. The vault of Notre-Dame of the castle had been equipped on March 19th 1380 by Pierre II with Alençon and Marie Chamaillard, his wife .

Visits and Animations

Free access at the court of the castle during the duration of the work.

Visits with accompanying notes
Visit of the keep , the drawbridge and the carries iron (panorama ***)
the summer, visits dramatized
Théâtre within the framework of the " Nights of Mayenne" , cinema within the framework of " Cinésites"
Temporary exhibitions in the " Bergerie"
teaching Workshops within the framework of the Country of Art and History Coëvrons-Mayenne.

the site of the General advice of Mayenne

To also see with Holy-Suzanne

Museum of the audience (site of the museum)
Ferté-Clairbois field of the knight
the walk of the Postern, the walk of the mills
the Camp of English, the Dolmen of Erves, the site of the Hillock Ganne
the river the Erve, the forest of the Charnie.

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