Château de Beauregard

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Le château en bref

The Château de Beauregard, of which only the central pediment survives today, was located on the heights of La Celle-Saint-Cloud in the Yvelines department, on a hill that now separates La Celle-Saint-Cloud from the commune of Le Chesnay, at over 160 metres above sea level. It underwent several transformations before falling definitively into ruin. It served as a prisoner-of-war camp under the German occupation between 1940 and 1941, then as a holding centre for Soviet prisoners at the Liberation pending their repatriation, and finally as an annex of the Fresnes prison until 1953, before being demolished for dilapidation, except for the front pediment; the estate is now occupied by social housing built by the City of Paris between 1959 and 1968.