Château de Saint-Frambourg, Heritage château in Ivry-sur-Seine, France
Château de Saint-Frambourg, also called château d'Ivry, was a square-plan stone château built for Claude Bosc around 1691 and modelled on the château d'Issy. It was destroyed before 1840; only terrace walls remain near rue Raspail, while the attached moulin de la Tour still stands. A 2020 reconstruction of its ground-floor plan shows a vestibule, salon, dining room, chambers and a staircase.
Claude Bosc, provost of the Paris merchants, built the château around 1691, between June 1690 and June 1692; its square plan copied that of the château d'Issy. On 7 August 1697 Bosc had a standing statue of Louis XIV placed in a room beside the main parterre, celebrated with fireworks and illuminations reported in the Mercure Galant. The estate later passed to the maréchal d'Uxelles, then to Henri-Camille, marquis de Beringhen, and to Marie-Adélaïde de Bourbon, who died there in 1821. It was demolished before 1840 and its site turned into farmland.
The château was built for Claude Bosc, prévôt des marchands de Paris, and later passed to the maréchal d'Uxelles, the marquis de Beringhen and Marie-Adélaïde de Bourbon, who died there in 1821. On 7 August 1697 Bosc had a standing statue of Louis XIV placed in a room beside the great parterre, celebrated with an evening of fireworks and illuminations reported in the Mercure Galant. The site is now the Parmentier square area, formerly the Saint-Frambourg crossroads.
The château no longer stands: it was demolished before 1840 and its site turned into farmland. What remains are mainly terrace walls, near Rue Raspail and the former Saint-Frambourg crossroads, now Place Parmentier between the town hall and Charles-Foix hospital. The mill of La Tour, once attached to the seigneurie of Ivry and Saint-Frambourg, still stands.
The château no longer stands: it was demolished before 1840 and its site turned into farmland. What survives are mainly terrace walls, while the Moulin de la Tour, once attached to the seigneurie d'Ivry and Saint-Frambourg, is still standing. The former hamlet of Saint-Frambourg lay between the town hall and the Charles-Foix hospital, on today's place Parmentier, once called carrefour Saint-Frambourg.
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