Château de Meudon

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The Château de Meudon, also known as the Château royal de Meudon, the Château impérial de Meudon or the Domaine national de Meudon, is a French château located in Meudon, in the Hauts-de-Seine department. It was home to the Duchess of Étampes, the Cardinal of Lorraine, Abel Servien, Louvois, and Monseigneur, known as the Grand Dauphin, who added the Château de Chaville to it as an annex. Burned down in 1795 (the Château-Vieux) and in 1871 (the Château-Neuf), the Château-Neuf, whose demolition was at one point considered, was preserved for the most part. From 1878 it was converted into an observatory housing a astronomical telescope, before being attached to the Paris Observatory in 1927. The château's site, on the crest of a wooded plateau, offers views of the Seine and Paris, as well as of the Chalais valley. Ideally situated between the capital and Versailles, at the heart of an extensive hunting reserve, and enjoying a topography well suited to vast gardens, it benefited from sumptuous improvements by its successive owners, from the Renaissance until the fall of the Second Empire. The whole of the Domaine national de Meudon has been listed as a monument historique since 12 April 1972. Hangar Y, in the Chalais-Meudon park, has been listed as a monument historique since 4 June 2000.