Château de Meudon

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Meudon Château, also known as the Royal Château of Meudon, the Imperial Palace of Meudon or the Domaine national de Meudon, is a French château located in Meudon, in the Hauts-de-Seine department. It was notably the residence of the Duchess of Étampes, the Cardinal of Lorraine, Abel Servien, Louvois, and Monseigneur, known as the Grand Dauphin, who added to it the Château de Chaville as an annex. Burnt down in 1795 (Château-Vieux) and in 1871 (Château-Neuf), the Château-Neuf, whose demolition was for a time considered, was preserved for the most part. From 1878 it was converted into an observatory housing an astronomical telescope, before being attached to the Paris Observatory in 1927. The château's site, on the ridge of a wooded plateau, offers views over the Seine and Paris, as well as over the Chalais valley. Ideally located between the capital and Versailles, at the heart of an extensive hunting reserve, and enjoying a topography ideal for 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.