En un regard
Le château en bref
The Château de Verneuil, in Verneuil-en-Halatte (Oise), was commissioned in the mid-16th century by Philippe IV de Boulainvilliers, who sold it unfinished around 1575 to Jacques de Savoie-Nemours. Henri IV acquired it and gave it to his mistress, Catherine de Balzac d'Entragues, whereupon the estate became a marquisate. Louis XIV elevated it to a duchy-peerage in 1652 for Henri de Bourbon-Verneuil. Bought in 1705 by the princes de Condé, it was demolished in 1734 because it overshadowed the Château de Chantilly. Only its substructures survive, which the commune has been having preserved since 1987 along with the Vieux Manoir. Jacques Androuet du Cerceau published ten engravings of it.