The castle of Pontchartrain is located at Jouars-Pontchartrain (Yvelines).

History

A manor is mentioned in Pontchartrain as of 1330. At the 16th century, this medieval manor, which could be located at the current site of the right wing of the castle, was probably abandoned to the farmers while a new manor was built on the current site of the left wing.

This castle was bought in 1598 by Antoine de Buade de Frontenac, captain of the castles of Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer, Saint-James and the Dumb woman. His/her son Henri married Anne Phélypeaux and sold Pontchartrain, in 1609, with Paul Phélypeaux (1569 - 1621), founder of the branch of Pontchartrain of the Famille Phélypeaux, in which it remained during two centuries.

It is the son of Paul Phélypeaux, Louis Ier Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain, who makes build principal constructions between 1633 and 1662. Frequently advanced attribution with François Mansart is without base.

Louis II Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain makes work in Pontchartrain the brother François Romain and André Ours.

Jerome Phélypeaux makes transform the body of the bottom of court into 1738. To its death, the field passes to his/her son Jean Frederic Phélypeaux, count de Maurepas. This one dies without descent in 1781.

In 1801, the field is bought by Claude-Xavier Carvillon of Tillières, which makes transform the gardens with the Frenchwoman into landscape gardens by Louis-Martin Berthault. To its death in 1812, the castle passes to his/her daughter, Aimée Carvillon of Tillières, countess then marchioness of Osmond.

In 1857, Pontchartrain is bought by the count Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck for his wife, Païva. This one made restore the castle by the architect Pierre Manguin.

In 1888, the field passes to the financier Auguste Dreyfus, who makes transform the castle by the architect Emile Boeswillwald and recall a garden with the Frenchwoman.

Structure

The castle built around the middle of the 17th century has a plan out of U. It is surrounded by ditches. The body of the bottom comprises a gallery, probably built between 1598 and 1609, putting in communication the two wings in return. This unusual provision - where the central body is not used that as connection - points out that of the Château of Écouen. It is probably the fruit of the successive stages of construction.

This central body was rebuilt in 1738 and was altered at the end of the 19th century by Boewillwalld, which doubled it in-depth side of the garden. In the house of the medium of court was bored, in 1940, a passage arched between the court and the garden, passably anachronistic.

The wings were preserved: they are composed of three houses, joined together by lengthened bodies. They are built out of brick and stone, the brick being used out of equipment, according to a technique which one also finds with the Château of Grosbois and with the Château of Mesnuls. One can think that the principal apartments were in the left wing and of the commun runs in the right wing.

In front of the central house of the right wing, a bridge spanned the ditch to give access to the farmyard. The stables were built at the beginning of the 18th century, probably by the Romain brother.

The vault was in the left wing accessible by a gallery in ground floor in alignment from the basic body. It was remplacéée in 1703 by an octagonal living room undoubtedly due to the Romain brother. The gallery which led there date of 1653. This gallery-living room unit was reproduced symmetrically in the right wing by Boeswillwald.

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