Castle of Madrid
The Château of Madrid was built in the Bois de Boulogne starting from 1527 on the order of and was completed for Henri II towards 1552.
Work was directed by the Florentin Girolamo Della Robbia and Tourangeaux Pierre Gadier and Gatien François. It is thought that François 1st personally took share with the design of this major chief of work of the French Renaissance.
The project was probably inspired by the Casa of Campo (destroyed), country house of the licenciado Vargas with Madrid (Spain), from where the name given to the castle. The two buildings had jointly to be built in edge of a forest near a big city, and to comprise a lengthened central main building, flanked large houses cubic and surrounded by loggias on two stages. But more probably, the provision of the plan came from the villa from Boffalora, built close to Busseto in Italy, by the entourage of Cristoforo Solari at the beginning of the XVI century.
This general bias is added with Italian influences, with the provision out of H of the central part, and Frenchwomen, with the drawing of the confined houses of turns and the interior distribution, which takes as a starting point the examples of Chenonceaux and Chambord, then taken again with the Dumb woman and Challeau.
The celebrity of the castle also held, for a great part, with the rich person decoration of Majolique in Haut-relief whose Della Robbia had covered almost totality with the frontages, and with the sumptuousness of the interior decoration.
In 1666 Jean Hindret founded Manufacture castle of Madrid for the weaving of the Bas of Soie.
The castle of Madrid was forsaken by the Bourbons with 17th and 18th centuries. It fell in ruin to the day before from the Révolution. In 1787, a stop of the signed Council of Louis XVI ordered that it would be sold in order to be demolished, jointly with several other fields of which the castle of the Dumb woman, the Château of Vincennes and the Château of Blois. The castle of Madrid was allocated on March 27th 1792 to a company of contractors of demolition who paid it in Assignat S. It remains about it today only one stone capital and three fragments of earthenware preserved at the museums of Sevres and of Écouen.
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