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Chateau de Breteuil
Contact : Marquis Henri-François de BRETEUIL
The château is built in the valley of Chevreuse, on a kind of promontory whose wooded slopes, prolonged as far as the eye can see by the neighboring forests, constitute a reserve of verdure, an immense 175 acre park 35 kilometers from Paris. The Romans, with their gift for discovering appropriate dwelling sites, were probably the first to settle on this spot. Later, in the feudal period, a stronghold was erected here; the moats and the dovecot go back to this early time. Under the reign of Henry IV, in 1604, a pleasure dwelling replaced the medieval fortress; it constitutes the central part of the present Château which has been progressively modified in the course of succeding generations.
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