Château Smith-Champion, 17th century castle in Nogent-sur-Marne, France.

Château Smith-Champion is a 17th-century property on rue Charles-VII in Nogent-sur-Marne, made up of two adjoining houses, at numbers 14 and 16. The 16 facade carries bas-reliefs of renowns and military trophies added by the Destouches generals from 1713. The estate is surrounded by a 10-hectare English-style park laid out over a former French formal garden.

The house was built in the 17th century as a pleasure house for wealthy Parisians settling on the Marne hillsides. From 1713 the generals Michel and Louis-Camus Destouches, serving Louis XIV, added bas-reliefs of renowns and military trophies to the facade and vestibule of 16 rue Charles-VII. The property changed owners 19 times up to the late 19th century. In 1945 the two adjoining houses became the Maison nationale des artistes.

The name recalls the Smith family: Jules Smith bought 16 rue Charles-VII, and his daughters Jeanne, a photographer, and Madeleine, a painter, lived in the two adjoining houses. Madeleine's will asked that they become a home for artists in need; after the deaths of 1940-1943 the estate passed to the State, and in 1945 the Maison nationale des artistes welcomed its first residents, directed by painter Guy Loë.

The two adjoining houses at 14 and 16 rue Charles-VII have housed the Maison nationale des artistes since 1945, and the MABA occupies the rebuilt no. 16. The 10-hectare park, reworked as an English garden, is the classified part of the estate; the bas-reliefs added by the Destouches brothers are on the facade at no. 16.

From 1909 to 1913 the Smith sisters and Pierre Champion ran a press campaign claiming Antoine Watteau had spent his last days on the estate, to block a road that would have split the park. The park was classified, and later studies showed the painter actually died in another domain, probably where the sous-préfecture now stands.