Château de Gandelu

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Le château en bref

The Château de Gandelu is a former medieval fortified castle, remodelled in the Renaissance, standing on a hill overlooking the village of Gandelu in the Aisne, on the old road from Paris to Reims. Owned by the lords of Châtillon, then by Louis of Orléans at the end of the 14th century, the estate passed in 1528 to the Montmorency family, then to the Luxembourgs and the Potiers, who became dukes of Gesvres in 1670. Constable Anne de Montmorency had the medieval fortress rebuilt in the 16th century as a residence of state. Abandoned at the end of the 18th century, the château is today a ruined private property, closed to the public, preserving a round tower and a curtain wall of the former fortified castle, as well as a bastioned tower and the ruins of the Renaissance residence.