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Château de Sceaux (Parc de Sceaux)

Château de Sceaux (Parc de Sceaux)
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Address: Domaine départemental de Sceaux, 8 Avenue Claude Perrault, 92330 Sceaux
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Ranked #96 of 144 in France

Ranked #42 of 61 in Ile-de-France

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The rebuilt Château of Sceaux, c. 2005

Château de Sceaux

The Château de Sceaux is a grand country house in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, approximately six miles from the center of Paris, France. Located in a park laid out by André Le Nôtre, visitors can tour the house, outbuildings and gardens.

The Petit Château operates as the Musée de l’Île-de-France, a museum of local history. The commune operates the site as Musée du Domaine départemental de Sceaux.

The former château was built for Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV's minister of finance, who purchased the domaine in 1670. The present château, designed to evoke the style of Louis XIII, dates from the Second Empire. Some of Colbert's outbuildings remain, and the bones of the garden...

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