The Château Mont-Royal is a French

castle A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders. Scholars debate the scope of the word ''castle'', but usually consider it to be the private fortified r ...

in La Chapelle-en-Serval,

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, built for

Fernand Halphen Fernand Gustave Halphen (18 February 1872 – 16 May 1917) was a French Jewish composer. Life and career Fernand Halphen was the son of Georges Halphen, a diamond merchant, and of Henriette Antonia Stern (1836–1905), who was from the Stern ban ...

by the architect

Guillaume Tronchet Guillaume Tronchet (22 October 1867 – 7 February 1959) was a French architect. His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Life Tronchet was born in Villeneuve-sur-Lot, Lot-et-Garonne. ...

, and currently used as the Chateau Hotel Mont Royal.

History

The building was to offer his wife a view which enchanted her, he said, that Fernand Halphen bought the house at la Chapelle-en-Serval, near Chantilly (Oise) and decided in 1908 to erect a country house in a wooded valley there, which became known as the Château Mont-Royal. After having rejected the project with the Anglo-Norman style of the architect

René Sergent René Sergent (; July 4, 1865 - August 22, 1927) was a noted French architect. Biography Born in Clichy, Sergent was trained at the École spéciale d'architecture, where he concentrated on French architecture of the 18th century but also studie ...

, then the first project of a mediaeval style of the architect

(drawings in the Musée d'Orsay), Halphen chose Tronchet's second plan, of a castle celebrating hunting on the outside and music on the inside. Constructed from 1907 to 1911, the castle (transformed into a hotel by Jean Pierre Hermier in 1989) was a great architectural success. Under the façades, the bas-reliefs made by Georges Gardet celebrate the pleasures of the hunt. The interior includes, notably, a theatre, a replica of that of the

Opéra-Comique The Opéra-Comique is a Paris opera company which was founded around 1714 by some of the popular theatres of the Parisian fairs. In 1762 the company was merged with – and for a time took the name of – its chief rival, the Comédie-Italienne ...

. During the

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, the castle was emptied of its furniture and vandalized. In 1989, J.P. Hermier bought it from the descendants of Fernand Halphen and had it transformed into a hotel, which opened its doors in 1990. In June 1992, the Concorde hotel group acquired the entire property. The hotel has one hundred and nine rooms including five suites, a restaurant and an indoor swimming pool.

References

External links

https://montroyal-chantilly.tiara-hotels.com/en/
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Mont-Royal Mount Royal (french: Mont-Royal, officially Town of Mount Royal, french: Ville de Mont-Royal, abbreviated TMR, french: VMR) is an affluent on-island suburban town located on the northwest side of the eponymous Mount Royal, northwest of Downtown ...

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