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Le château en bref
The Château du Plessis, in Le Plessis-Robinson (Hauts-de-Seine), now the town hall, was built in the early fifteenth century (completed in 1412) for Jean Piquet de La Haye, treasurer to King Charles VI and local lord. Seized in 1423 by the English after the siege of Harfleur, who entrusted it to Guillaume de Dangueil, it was acquired in 1682 by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Secretary of State for the Navy. The carpet manufacturer Sébastien-François de La Planche had a garden laid out there by Jacques de Marne in 1683; Marshal Pierre de Montesquiou d'Artagnan, owner from 1699, had a terrace built there. The publisher Louis Hachette, who acquired it in 1854, restored it after its occupation during the Franco-Prussian War. The Department of Social Assistance purchased it in 1917, before its conversion to municipal use in 1931. A statue of d'Artagnan by Julien Charton was installed there in 2000; a major campaign to restore the masonry was completed in 2022.