Haroué () is a
commune in the
Meurthe-et-Moselle
Meurthe-et-Moselle () is a '' département'' in the Grand Est region of France, named after the rivers Meurthe and Moselle. Its prefecture and largest city is Nancy and it borders the departments of Meuse to the west, Vosges to the south, ...
department in north-eastern
France
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.
Geography
The river
Madon
The Madon () is a long river in the Vosges and Meurthe-et-Moselle '' départements'', northeastern France. Its source is near Vioménil. It flows generally north. It is a left tributary of the Moselle into which it flows at Pont-Saint-Vincen ...
flows through the commune.
Historical Features
The
Château d'Haroué was constructed between 1720 and 1732 by
Germain Boffrand
Germain Boffrand () (16 May 1667 – 19 March 1754) was a French architect. A pupil of Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Germain Boffrand was one of the main creators of the precursor to Rococo called the ''style Régence'', and in his interiors, of the ...
for Prince
Marc de Beauvau, Viceroy of
Tuscany
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Tuscany is known for its landscapes, history, artistic legacy, and its in ...
. The architect had to integrate into his plans the four towers and the moat of the predating medieval castle of
François de Bassompierre
François de Bassompierre (; 12 April 157912 October 1646) was a French courtier.
The son of Christophe de Bassompierre (1547–1596), he was born at the castle of Haroué in Lorraine. He was descended from an old family which had for generatio ...
. The decoration of the castle was entrusted to artists from the
Lorraine
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region:
Jean Lamour (1698-1771) for the gates, the balcony, and the banister,
Pillement (1698-1771) for the interior painting of one of the towers, and
Barthélemy Guibal (1699-1757), the sculptor of the fountains of
Place Stanislas
The Place Stanislas is a large Pedestrian zone, pedestrianised Town Square, square in the France, French city of Nancy, France, Nancy, in the Lorraine historic region. Built between 1752 and 1756 on the orders of Stanislaus I, former King of Polan ...
in
Nancy, for the statuary. The French park was designed by
Emilio Terry
Emilio Rene Terry y Sánchez (1890–1969), known as Emilio Terry was a French architect, artist, interior decorator and landscape designer of Cuban-Irish ancestry. Creating furniture, tapestries and objets d'art, he was influenced by the châtea ...
.
See also
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References
Communes of Meurthe-et-Moselle
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