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The Château de Champs is a neoclassical château in Champs-sur-Marne, France. It was built in its present form for the treasurer Charles Renouard de la Touane in 1699 by Pierre Bullet, architecte du roi. 
Around 1750, the Duc de La Vallière added a beautiful rococo salon chinois (Chinese salon) to the château with wall paintings by noted artist Christophe Huet.
After the construction of a magnificent new château at Montrouge around 1750, however, the duke gradually abandoned the Château de Champs-sur-Marne. Eventually, he tried to sell the domain, but he could not find a buyer and was forced to rent it out. Between July 1757 and January 1759, he leased the estate to Madame de Pompadour for 12,000 livres per year. The marquise spent 200,000 livres in less than eighteen months to renovate the château. In November 1757, she received the prince de Soubise there after his defeat at the Battle of Rossbach. As the king did not like the château, the marquise left it at the beginning of 1759. In 1763, the duke finally sold Champs to Gabriel Michel de Tharon (1702–1765), a rich shipowner.
After several changes of owners, the residence was modernised in 1959 to ready it for visiting heads of state of the French Union. In 1974 it was opened to the public and ceased its official capacity. It has served as a location for many films since then, while the Monuments Historiques employ some outbuildings as research facilities.
The château looks onto a grand parterre with two basins and an extended central axis that sweeps down all the way to the Marne, laid out about 1710 by Claude Desgotz, the nephew and pupil of André Le Nôtre; it is surrounded by a landscape park laid out in the nineteenth century in the English fashion.

The Château de Guermantes is a Château located in Guermantes, Seine-et-Marne. Construction of the Château de Guermantes was undertaken by Claude Viole (died 1638), whose family had possessed the fief of "Le Chemin" since the mid sixteenth century.Paulin Pondre (1650-1723) purchased the property in 1698. He engaged Jules Hardouin-Mansart for renovations to the building, completed in 1710 and André Le Nôtre to lay out the garden.
The castle provided movie locations for Philippe de Broca for Cartouche (1962), the Polish director Andrzej Wajda for Danton, Miloš Forman for Amadeus (1984) and Stephen Frears for Dangerous Liaisons (1988). Guermantes is not open to the public.
It inspired to Marcel Proust the name of one of the characters of A la recherche du temps perdu but does not acutally appear, directly or indirectly in the novel.

The Château de Ferrières is a castle built between 1855 and 1859 for Baron James de Rothschild. Rothschild ownership of the Château de Ferrières was passed down through the male line according to the rule of primogeniture, until it was donated by the family in 1975 to the University of Paris. Considered to be one of the largest and most luxurious 19th-century châteaux in France, it can be reached from Rue Rucherie in the town of Ferrières-en-Brie in the Seine-et-Marne department.
The property is now used as a school called "École Ferrières" (Ferrières School), which opened in late 2015 and focuses on gastronomy and the hospitality industry. There are also two restaurants on site, named "Le Baron" and "Le Chai".

The Château de Chessy is located in the town of Chessy in Seine-et-Marne. It was built in the early years of the 16th century for Jean de Fourcy, Lord of Chessy and Pommeuse. A connoisseur of architecture through his position as intendant then superintendent of the buildings of King Henry IV , Jean de Fourcy built a castle in the style of the first half of the 17th century: in brick and stone, and covered with slate.
It is today the headquarters of Val d'Europe Agglomeration.

The Château de Fontenelle is a castle located in Chanteloup-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne. The origins of the castle date back to the Middle Ages. The castle is composed of two towers and a central part which bathes in the water on the south side. Entirely surrounded by moats, the castle is accessible by two bridges: one in stone and the other in sculpted metal. There are many century-old trees in the park of the Château de Fontenelle. The castle is private and cannot be visited.This is the birthplace of the famous French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004).

The Château de Jossigny was built in 1753 for Claude-François Leconte des Graviers, adviser to the 5th Chamber of Investigations of the Parliament of Paris, by Jacques Hardouin-Mansart de Sagonne (1711–1778), last of the illustrious dynasty of the Mansarts. Located 32 kilometers east of Paris and 6 kilometers south of Lagny-sur-Marne, it is one of the most perfect examples of the application of L’art de bâtir des maisons de campagne by Charles-Étienne Briseux, published in Paris in 1743. It constitutes a valuable testimony to the architecture of a rocaille-style house from the middle of the 18th century in all its most charming and picturesque features. 

The Château de Gournay-sur-Marne, located in the commune of Gournay-sur-Marne in Seine-Saint-Denis, about fifteen kilometers east of Paris, is a 17th century castle and the current city hall of the town. Although built during the reign of Louis XIV, this château with its classic lines, combining brick with freestone , is closer to the Henri IV style and recalls the Place des Vosges.

The Chateau du Bois de Chigny is located in Lagny-sur-Marne. Very few documentation exist on this residence which has been abandoned and squatted for several years.

The Château de Malnoue, was built in 1866 by Doctor Auguste Nélaton, a French surgeon born in Paris in 1807, professor of clinical surgery at the Faculty of Paris in 1851, member of the Academy in 1856.
After his death from Bright's disease in 1873, his wife sold the castle to the bankers Gendry and Duval. Claire Menier, widow of the chocolate maker, became the owner in 1884 and the castle remained in the family until 1960, the year during which it passed into the hands of the distiller Charles Cathal who transformed the castle of Malnoue into a retirement home. It was bought by Prince Bandar Al Faissal Bin Abdulaziz and rehabilitated in 2002. A real estate project of high standing apartments has been launched around the castle. The castle itself is located in the axis of Emerainville aerodrome.

NEW: The Château de Bailly used to be the seat of a large domain. A farm was added next to the remains of the dungeon which was restored in the middle of the 19th century. New intervention were planned recently to restore the site.

VFR landmarks for Noisiel:

The commune of Noisiel is part of the Val Maubuée sector, one of the four sectors in the "new town" of Marne-la-Vallée. Noisiel is synonymous with the name "Menier", famous chocolate makers who built the first automated chocolate production facility in 1825 at a time when the village's inhabitants numbered around 200. The Menier company would prosper and in the 1870s built a complete "town" to accommodate its employees that numbered more than 2000 by the end of the 19th century.

With a capacity of 2000 m3, the Chateaux d'eau jumeaux "Les Totems" supply the towns of Val Maubuée. Their location around the Allée des Bois marks the junction between the urban area of ​​Noisiel and the natural space of Bois de la Grange. Originally bare, one of the water towers was decorated between 1972 and 1975. Playing on the cylindrical and vertical shape of the two towers, visual artist Maurice Garnier reversed the strictly functional role of the water towers by introducing the totem symbolism. The glass paste decoration is meant to represent the protective spirits of the sun and the moon, but only one of the two totems was completed.

Built between 1971 and 1979, the Château d'eau des Quatre Pavés is an early work of the architect Christian de Portzamparc. Designed as a vegetal Babylon tower, the water tower fits into a roundabout. Built on a decagonal plan, the water tower is 35.40 meters high. Its capacity is 2000 m3.

Three copies of the "Tour des Jeunes Mariés" were erected at the dawn of the 1970s in the Paris region. They were originally intended to accommodate young couples settling in Paris, in a logic of modern and transitional housing. Renovated for the first time in 1990, the Noisiel tower lost its originality. Antoine Felletin undertook its renovation, which was completed in 2013. Rediscovering the original sensuality, he added a certain coppery smoothness through the exterior isolation. The two other towers are located in Cergy and Villetaneuse.

 

The Châteaux de Champs, de Guermantes and de Ferrières come with their own POI.

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