Chantilly

See also: Chantilly (homonymy)

Chantilly is a common French, located in the department of the Oise and the area Picardy.
The inhabitants are called Cantilien () s.
During the French revolution the city was called Field-Libre.

Geography

Located on the Little nun. The districts of Chantilly are: the Singing Cock, the district Michel Lefebure, Saint-Denis Wood and the city in itself organized in two cores, around the street of the Constable and the avenue of the Joffre marshal.

The commune is served by the SNCF since Paris at the beginning of the Gare of North, Broad outline direction Creil, Amiens, but also consequently station on the RER D.

The National council of the towns of art and history, joined together on February 13rd, 2007, decreed the label " Cities and Pays of Art and History " , in Chantilly. Chantilly thus joined the closed circle of the 130 towns of art and history.

History

In the beginning, Chantilly was only one castle. It is Henri Jules de Bourbon-Cop which made set up Chantilly in parish in 1692 for the servants placed on the spot. Its grandson, Louis IV Henri de Bourbon-Cop, is the true founder of the city whose it makes trace the foreground.

At the time of the First World War, the Maréchal Joffre installed his staff in Chantilly.

Administration

Demography

Economy

The resources of the city are primarily tourist:
  • Large main forest (belonging to the Regional natural park Oise-Country of France) gathering the forests of Chantilly, Ermenonville, Forest of the Lily and Halatte. The solid mass is the theater, during the season, of hunts, whose several crews are based in Chantilly.
  • Hippodrome of Chantilly, specialized in flat races, which accommodate many horse-races of which the prestigious Prix of the Jockey-Club and Prix of Diane.

The Porcelaines of Chantilly were oldest of France, before those of Sevres and Limoges. It is also in Chantilly that would have been invented the Dentelle and the Whipped cream.

Places and monuments

  • Castle of Chantilly, built for the Montmorency then residence of the Cop and finally of the duke of Aumale, fifth wire of Louis-Philippe, which made of it gift with the Institut of France. The Château includes/understands famous Grandes Écurie S.

  • Musée Cop in the castle.
  • the Large Stables where is located the Musée living of the horse, one of the equestrian sites most visited in the world.
  • the House of Manse and its hydraulic machines. At the edge of the Little nun, in the middle of Chantilly, the House of Manse was built at the end it XVIIe century to shelter a hydraulic Machine contemporary with the Machine of Marly. Its role was to draw the water of a source to its balance, to raise it to fill a tank with open sky, and with there, it to distribute to the basins, fountains, cascades and jets of water which decorated the garden of the Large Cop, cousin of the king Louis XIV, drawn by Ours.

Photographs

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