Castle of the Rosny-on-Seine

The castle of the Rosny-on-Seine is a Château of Style Louis XIII located at the Rosny-on-Seine in the Yvelines on left bank of the the Seine.

Built out of bricks and calcareous stone by Maximilien de Béthune, duke of Sully, at the end of XVIe century, on the site of an old strengthened manor, dismantled in burned in 1435, this castle knew various vicissitudes during XIXe and XXe centuries. However, until the Revolution, it had not ceased being inhabited and carefully maintained by its successive owners.

The field was repurchased in 1818 by the duke of Berry which was assassinated two years later, the February 13rd 1820. The duchess of Berry, Marie-Caroline-Fernande de Bourbon, become lady of the manor of Rosny, made begin again, in 1826, the construction of the wings, left unfinished by Sully with died of Henri IV.

When it left France with Charles X in 1830, it particularly recommended the castle to her aunt, the queen Marie-Amélie. When it had lost any hope to return to France, after its exile, it sold its castle and its field in 1836 to an English banker, which yielded in his turn with an anonymous company of business men. The field was then parcelled out, and the castle on the way to be dismantled. At this point in time the count Marois was presented in the form of a purchaser in 1840, saving the building of the total destruction. The new owner, finding the residence too large for his use, made cut down the wings built by the duchess of Berry, leaving the remainder of construction in the state where one can currently see it.

End of the XIXe century until in 1955, the castle and the field belonged to the Famille Lebaudy, which made arrange the commun runs to lodge their stables, and their packs of dogs, since they practiced the Hunt in the surrounding forests. The castle was classified historic building in 1941. In 1947, it accommodated the 11th World conference of Scouting.

The castle was then bought in 1955 by Doctor Hertz, who arranged in the commun runs a center of functional rehabilitation (currently APARC), itself, and then its widow, continuing to live the castle until August 1984.

Asset in December 1984 by a Japanese company, the Japanese Sangyoo Kabushiki Kaisha, it was largely stripped of its furniture and underwent various degradations, of which a fire the January 24th 1997. Work of conservation, dealt with by the ministry for the Culture and the Communication, was then undertaken of office, then the failing owner was exproprié by the State.

Since 1999, the castle belongs to an private owner who wishes to arrange it in order to make a relay-castle of it. Work is always in hand.

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