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Le château en bref
The name ‘Château du Marquis de Chamillart’ most probably refers, in Marnes-la-Coquette (Hauts-de-Seine), to the Château de l’Étang, designed by the architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart and begun in 1695 for Louis-François-Marie Le Tellier de Barbezieux, Secretary of State to Louis XIV. After his death, his heirs sold the estate in 1701 to Michel Chamillart, Louis XIV’s chief minister, who completed the works and celebrated his daughter’s marriage there in December 1702. Chamillart’s fall from favour in 1709, after which he retired to the Château de Courcelles in the Maine, led to the sale of the demolition materials of the château from April 1710: its existence was one of the shortest among French châteaux. The estate comprised a large parterre, a pond extended by a canal, and a pool separating it from the neighbouring Château de la Marche, also owned by Chamillart, which he used as stables.