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Le château en bref
The Château de Bellevue, in Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine), was built between 1749 and 1750 on a plateau overlooking the Seine, on land acquired by Louis XV in 1748 and completed by Le Normant de Tournehem, then given to Madame de Pompadour in 1749. Designed from plans by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, the building was carried out by Jean Cailleteau, known as Lassurance, and the gardens by Jean-Charles Garnier d'Isle. The project employed up to 800 workers at a cost of 2.5 million livres. Bought back by Louis XV in 1757 for 325,000 livres, it became from 1774 the residence of Mesdames Adélaïde, Sophie and Victoire, daughters of the King, until their departure for Italy on 5 February 1792. Turned into a barracks during the Revolution despite a decision by the Convention in 1794 to preserve it, it was sold to Testu-Brissy, who had it demolished. The estate was subdivided from 1823, and some fifty houses were built on its ruins from 1826. Today only a few elements remain, protected as historic monuments: the central terrace (listed in 1926), the Petit Bellevue pavilion (1785), the ice house (1755), the Gardes building and an artificial grotto. Bellevue station occupies approximately the site of the vanished château.