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Encyclopedia Britannica



CHANTILLY

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 847 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAU-CHA
CHANTILLY , a town of northern France, in the department of Oise, 25 M. N. of Paris on the Northern railway to St Quentin. Pop. (1906) 4632. It is finely situated to the north of the forest of Chantilly and on the left bank of the river Nonette, and is one of the favourite Parisian resorts. Its name was long associated with the manufacture, which has now to a
great
  extent decayed, of lace and blonde; it is still more celebrated for its chateau and its park (laid out originally by A. Le nitre in the second half of the 17th century), and as the scene of the
great
  annual races of the French Jockey Club. The chateau consists of the palace built from 1876 to 1885 and of an older portion adjoining it known as the chatelet. The old castle must have been in existence in the 13th century, and in the reign of Charles VI. the lordship belonged to Pierre d'Orgemont, chancellor of France. In 1484 it passed to the
house
  of Montmorency, and in 1632 from that family to the
house
  of
Conde
 . Louis II., prince de
Conde
 , surnamed the Great, was specially attached to the place, and did a great deal to enhance its beauty and splendour. Here he enjoyed the society of La Bruyere, Racine, Moliere, La Fontaine, Boileau, and other great men of his time; and here his steward Vatel killed himself in despair, because of a hitch in the preparations for the reception of Louis XIV. The stables close to the racecourse were built from 1719 to 1735 by Louis-Henri, duke of Bourbon. Of the two splendid mansions existing at that period known as the grand chateau and the chatelet, the former was destroyed about the time of the Revolution, but the latter, built for Anne de Montmorency by Jean Bullant, still remains as one of the finest specimens of Renaissance architecture in France. The chateau d'
Enghien
 , facing the entrance to the grand chateau, was built in 1770 as a guest-house. On the death in 183o of the duke of Bourbon, the last representative of the house of Conde, the estate passed into the hands of Henri, duc d'
Aumale
 , fourth son of Louis Philippe. In 1852 the house of Orleans was declared incapable of possessing property in France, and Chantilly was accordingly sold by
auction
 .
Purchased
  by the English bankers, Coutts & Co., it passed back into the hands of the duc d'
Aumale
  in 1872. By him a magnificent palace, including a fine chapel in the Renaissance style, was erected on the foundations of the ancient grand chateau and in the style of the chatelet. It is
quadrilateral
  in shape, consisting of four unequal sides flanked by towers and built round a courtyard. The whole group of buildings as well as the pleasure-ground behind them, known as the Parterre de la Voliere, is surrounded by fosses supplied with water from the Nonette. On the terrace in front of the chateau there is a bronze statue of the constable Anne de Montmorency. The duc d'Aumale installed in the chatelet a valuable library, specially rich in incunabula and 16th century editions of classic authors, and a collection of the paintings of the great masters, besides many other objects of art. By a public act in 1886 he gave the park and chateau with its superb collections to the Institute of France in trust for the nation, reserving to himself only a life
interest
 ; and when he died in 1897 the Institute acquired full possession.


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