Château de la Marche

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Le château en bref

The Château de la Marche, in Marnes-la-Coquette (Hauts-de-Seine), is first mentioned in the fifteenth century. Used at the beginning of the eighteenth century as stables by Michel Chamillart, minister of Louis XIV, it was acquired in 1718 by the financier John Law, then became in 1785 the property of Marie-Antoinette, who annexed it to the Saint-Cloud estate, before being sold as national property in 1794. Converted into a steeplechase racecourse between 1851 and 1898, then equipped with an ice factory in 1898, the estate was divided in 1914; repurchased in 1928 by the Compagnie des agents de change de Paris to lay out a stadium, its western part retained the château until 1937, the year before its demolition in spring 1938 to cut through the avenue de Chamillard. The site is today shared between private residences and sports facilities, the property having been redivided in 2011 between the Crédit Agricole and the local authorities.