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Château de Saint Hubert

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Status
  
Destroyed

Owner
  
Louis XV of France

Construction started
  
1755

Location
  
Le Perray-en-Yvelines

Architectural style
  
Neoclassicism

Architect
  
Ange-Jacques Gabriel

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Similar
  
Château de Choisy, Château de Madrid, Château de Meudon, Petit Trianon, Château de Rambouillet

The Château de Saint-Hubert was a royal château built by order of Louis XV in Perray-in-Yvelines (now in the department of Yvelines), for use while he was hunting in the nearby forest (Saint Hubert is the patron saint of hunters). The design was entrusted to Ange-Jacques Gabriel, designer of the École Militaire, and the building was under construction from 1755 to 1758.

Map of Ch%C3%A2teau de Saint-Hubert, 78610 Le Perray-en-Yvelines, France

Saint-Hubert was originally intended as a simple hunting lodge, to allow the King to rest during and after the hunt without calling on his cousin, the duc de Penthièvre. Work was not completed by 1756, and it was decided to turn Saint-Hubert into a full château, with a main building housing 25 nobles, plus two projecting service wings and a gatehouse creating a courtyard. The main room was elaborately decorated with painted stucco.

The building was still not completed by the death of Louis XV, and Louis XVI abandoned it as too expensive. Instead, he bought the Château de Rambouillet from the duc de Penthièvre. Saint-Hubert then fell into disrepair and was demolished in 1855. Little remains today.

Louis XV had planned a model village around the Château de Saint-Hubert, but it also was never completed.

A painting by Charles-André van Loo ordered in 1758 for the chapel at Saint-Hubert, The conversion of Saint-Hubert is now housed in the église Saint-Lubin-et-Saint-Jean in Rambouillet.

References

Château de Saint-Hubert Wikipedia