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Origin and history

The Château du Mont-Renaud originated in the early 14th century, when Gérard de Villars, Commander of Éterpigny, sold Mont Hérimont to Renaud de Rouy, treasurer of Philippe le Bel. The latter established a community of Chartreux, officially founded by a royal charter in 1310 under the name of Chartreuse de Mont-Saint-Louis, then renamed Mont-Renaud in honour of its founder. The Chartreuse became a major religious place, protected by the crown, and was profoundly redesigned in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Declared national at the time of the French Revolution, the Chartreuse was sold and suffered extensive damage. At the beginning of the 19th century, between 1804 and 1805, architect François-Tranquille Gauché transformed the ruins into a palace surrounded by picturesque gardens for M. Boileau. In 1818, the cartreuse was replaced by a castle with a dovecote and a garden factory, before being modified again at the end of the 19th century with the addition of a farm.

Today, only the right wing of the castle remains, rehabilitated after the destruction of the First World War. Some architectural elements, such as statues and woodwork, have been preserved and are exhibited in the Oise department museum and Notre-Dame de Noyon cathedral. These remains testify to the historical and artistic significance of the site, marked by its successive transformations, from the medieval cartreuse to the romantic castle.

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