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In the centre of Nogent-le-Roi, in the Eure valley, the present château is a Second Empire mansion built on the site of a royal fortress. In 1218, the Countess of Blois ceded the castle to King Philip Augustus, which gave the town its name; Saint Louis and then Philip III the Bold stayed there. In 1463, the lordship was granted to Pierre de Brézé, Grand Seneschal of Normandy, who had a fortress rebuilt on the ruins of the former one.
Sold as national property during the Revolution, this medieval castle was largely demolished. In 1863, the architect Alfred Chapelain built in its place a mansion in the Neo-Louis XIII style, whose roof reuses 17th-century elements from the château de Grogneul, and whose interiors reflect the taste of the Second Empire.
Of the fortress survive a curtain wall flanked by two square towers and a postern gate; a 19th-century windmill, which supplied water to the park, completes the site. The remains and the windmill have been listed as monuments historiques since 1993. The château belongs to the commune, and its park is open to the public.