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Origin and history

Loeuilly Castle, located in the eponymous commune of Hauts-de-France, is a building built in the 4th quarter of the 19th century. Originally a simple country pavilion, it was enlarged and embellished by a young couple of the Earth bourgeoisie, living on the incomes of their rents and rents. Their passion for hunting, a social activity popular in their environment, prompted them to design a residential project adapted to this lifestyle, including an innovative hunting park for the time.

The estate consists of the "Château" itself, equipped with turrets to give it a seigneurial appearance, as well as a functional farm and a large hunting park. The latter, unusual in the local bourgeois context, reflected both a social status and a desire to animate a worldly life centered on hunting. Together, including the house, outbuildings, the winter garden, the vegetable garden and the fence walls, was classified as Historic Monument by decree of 25 March 2010 for its character representative of the architecture and lifestyles of the rural bourgeoisie of the late nineteenth century.

The castle thus illustrates the evolution of the secondary residences of the aristocracy and of the earth bourgeoisie at this time, where social prestige depended on ostentatious landscape and architectural developments. The hunting park, in particular, was a utilitarian and symbolic space, serving as a framework for worldly gatherings while affirming the control of the territory by its owners. Today, the site remains a testimony of this time, mixing architectural heritage and preserved natural heritage.

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