Château de Rentilly

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Le château en bref

The Rentilly estate, in Bussy-Saint-Georges, is mentioned as early as 1265 under the name Rentilliacum, in a charter of the Abbey of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés. A first château was built in the early 16th century by Jean Bourdereul, rebuilt in 1599 by Jean de Ligny, secretary to Henri IV, and then replaced between 1774 and 1780 by an Italianate château commissioned by the Marquis René de Thomé. In the 19th century, the Thuret family (1819) transformed the park into a landscape garden, the André family (1846) raised the château in the Louis XIII style and created cascading basins in agglomerated concrete (Coignet process) in 1865, and then Gaston Menier (1891) fitted out Turkish baths and a trophy room with a metal framework by the Eiffel workshops. Gutted by fire on 21 August 1944 and rebuilt between 1951 and 1954, the estate was sold to the EPA Marne in 1987, then bought back from 2001 to 2004 by Marne et Gondoire, which converted it into a cultural park (2006) and an art centre, inaugurated on 22 November 2014, with a mirror-polished stainless steel envelope.