The Château de Sucy-en-Brie is a French
château
A château (, ; plural: châteaux) is a manor house, or palace, or residence of the lord of the manor, or a fine country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally, and still most frequently, in French-speaking re ...
located at 1 Avenue Georges Pompidou in the commune of
Sucy-en-Brie
Sucy-en-Brie (, literally ''Sucy in Brie (region), Brie'') is a Communes of France, commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the Kilometre Zero, center of Paris.
Population
Transport
Sucy-en-Brie is served by S ...
(current ''
département
In the administrative divisions of France, the department (, ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level (" territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes. There are a total of 101 ...
'' of
Val-de-Marne
Val-de-Marne (, "Vale of the Marne") is a department of France located in the Île-de-France region. Named after the river Marne, it is situated in the Grand Paris metropolis to the southeast of the City of Paris. In 2019, Val-de-Marne had a ...
). It is also known as the Château Lambert (after its first owner, Nicolas Lambert, Sieur de Thorigny) and Château de Berc (after its last owner). The château was constructed beginning in 1660, to designs of the French architect
François Le Vau
François Le Vau (; 1624
– 4 July 1676)
was a French architect and a founding member of the Académie Royale d'Architecture (established in 1671). He is also known for being the youngest brother of the more famous French architect, Louis Le Va ...
. Today it is owned by the commune of Sucy-en-Brie and is used as a conservatory of music.
The building is typical of classical French château design, consisting of a ''
corps de logis
In architecture, a ''corps de logis'' () is the principal or main block, or central building of a mansion, country or manor house, castle, or palace. It contains the rooms of principal business, the state apartments and the ceremonial or formal ...
'' flanked by two
pavilions
In architecture, ''pavilion'' has several meanings;
* It may be a subsidiary building that is either positioned separately or as an attachment to a main building. Often it is associated with pleasure. In palaces and traditional mansions of Asia ...
. Built in cut stone, it has a ground floor and a main floor, topped with an attic storey under a
mansard roof
A mansard or mansard roof (also called French roof or curb roof) is a multi-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides, with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper, and often punctured by dormer wi ...
covered with slate.
It has been classified as a ''
monument historique
() is a designation given to some national heritage sites in France. It may also refer to the state procedure in France by which national heritage protection is extended to a building, a specific part of a building, a collection of buildings, ...
'' since 18 July 1975.
Notice no. PA00079907
Base Mérimée
The ''Base Mérimée'' () is the database of French monumental and architectural heritage, created and maintained by the French Ministry of Culture. It was created in 1978, and placed online in 1995. The database is periodically updated, and conta ...
.
Notes
Bibliography
* Babelon, Jean-Pierre
Jean-Pierre Babelon (17 November 1931 – 2 February 2024) was a French historian.
Biography
Born in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, Babelon was the son of historian Jean Babelon and the grandson of historian Ernest Babelon. He graduated from ...
(1974). "Le château de Sucy en Brie, oeuvre de François Le Vau", in ''Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Ile de France'', 1974-1975, pp 83-102
Copy
at Gallica.
* Feldmann, Dietrich (1996). "Le Vau", vol. 19, pp. 262–268, in ''The Dictionary of Art
''Grove Art Online'' is the online edition of ''The Dictionary of Art'', often referred to as the ''Grove Dictionary of Art'', and part of Oxford Art Online, an internet gateway to online art reference publications of Oxford University Press, ...
'', 34 volumes, edited by Jane Turner. New York: Grove. . Also available a
Oxford Art Online
(subscription required).
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