Castle of Saint-Hubert (Perray-in-Yvelines)

See also: Saint-Hubert

The castle of Saint-Hubert is a royal castle built by order of Louis XV with the Perray-in-Yvelines (current department of the Yvelines).

Louis XV, who liked to drive out in forest of Yvelines, decided to make there build a hunting lodge near the ponds of Will be able, created under Louis XIV in order to feed out of water the Parc of Versailles. Entrusted to Angel-Jacques Gabriel, work proceeded 1755 with 1758.

In the beginning, Saint-Hubert was a simple appointment of hunting intended to allow the king to shelter without having to request the hospitality of his cousin the duke of Penthièvre, lord of the place. But, as of 1756, whereas the work was not completed, of the enlargings were decided which made of Saint-Hubert a true royal residence. The castle was then unceasingly increased 1761 with 1772 to place the Court there: it counted until more than one hundred fifty apartments.

In addition to a main building which can accommodate 25 distinguished guests, it included/understood two large buildings of commun runs on both sides of a court closed by two houses of entry joined by a grid. Only the living room, treated of except work on the pond, presented an elaborate decoration of painted stuccos carried out by the Italian sculptor Clerici and of arm of light to hunting trophies engraved by Caffieri. The decoration had been supplemented by the sculptors Slodtz, Rousseau, Pigalle, Falconet, Coustou and the painters Bachelier and Carle Van Loo.

Louis XV did not cease building in Saint-Hubert until his death but Louis XVI, finding the castle too exiguous, forsook it and finishes by buying, in December 1783, the Château of Rambouillet to his/her cousin the duke of Penthièvre. Saint-Hubert then was unfurnished and given up and fell little by little in ruins. As of 1785, one demolishes the wings of the commun runs of the forecourt. The castle itself was demolished in 1855. It does not remain about it today that a terrace with setback on the pond of Will be able.

It is possible that the grid of the Château of Mesnuls, in the vicinity, installation in 1795, comes from Saint-Hubert. In the Saint-Lubin-and-Saint-Jean church of Rambouillet, a table coming from Saint-Hubert is: the conversion of Saint-Hubert of Carle Van Loo, ordered in 1758 for the vault of the castle.

Louis XV had planned to establish in Saint-Hubert a small town. The houses of the village, of a uniform type, carry testimony of this project which was not concluded its.

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