Timeline

Heritage classified

Key figures

Origin and history

The castle of Brévannes came into being in the 14th century with a medieval castle with towers, moats and scauguettes belonging to the Corbie family. Under Louis XIV, his gardens were redesigned by André Le Nôtre. In 1786 Marc Henri Le Pileur de Brévannes, king's adviser and president of the Chambre des comptes de Paris, bought the estate in ruins, demolished it and built the current Louis XVI style castle. The Revolution forced him to flee, and on his return he sold the estate in 1803.

In 1803, Pierre Marie Muguet de Varange, receiver general and then Baron under the Empire, acquired the castle. Mayor of Limeil-Brévannes from 1806 to 1817, he died in 1818. The estate then went into several hands: occupied by the Austrians in 1814, bought in 1823 by banker Jean-Charles Clarmont, then by philologist Philippe Sarchi and his son. After the 1870 war, the Prussians briefly occupied it. In 1874 Prince Achille Murat, the nephew of Napoleon I, restored him before losing him to the game against Baron Rodolphe Hottinguer.

In 1883, Paris Public Assistance purchased the castle to make it a hospital with dispensary. Successive expansions transformed the site: household quarters (1886), chronic patients' quarters (1891), tuberculosis buildings (1907, architect Paul-Louis Renaud), and a sanatorium around 1915. The estate, including a pigeon house classified in 1980 and the castle registered in 2002, became the current Emile-Roux hospital. Orangery, transformed into a chapel in 1940, completes this historic ensemble.

External links