Castle of Sevran
In 1873, Alfred Nobel settles with Paris and begins research to install, in the Paris region, its laboratories. Its choice is made on Sevran, at the time in Seine-et-Oise, currently in Seine-Saint-Denis.
In 1865, Napoleon III, issues the construction of a new powder mill: the IMPERIAL POWDER MILL OF SEVRAN-LIVRY, whose work will begin after the release from the national territory in 1873. The choice of Nobel for this small village, near to the powder mill and the laboratories of the Service of the powders and salpetres, was certainly not innocent: that to him will be reproached rather hard a few years later.
It acquires there a beautiful property made up of a beautiful middle-class house surrounded, then of a large park, called wrongly the “castle” of Fayet in which it installs its laboratories in dependences.
Today, the “castle” of Fayet is the current town hall of Sevran. The laboratories always exist but are used as handing-over at the municipal services.
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