France · 17th century
The Château du Fayel is located near Le Fayel, in the French Oise department.
Built between 1650 and 1655 for Philippe de La Mothe-Houdancourt, Marshall of France and Viceroy of Catalonia, it was designed by Jacques Sparrow, an elder half-brother of Libéral Bruant, designer of Les Invalides.
The Château was inhabited by members of the de la Mothe Houdancourt family, like Charles (between 1693 and 1728) and Louis Claude (between 1728 and 1755), until it passed by marriage to the Rouault-Gamaches, Héricy, and Cossé-Brissac families. The Château was never sold and is today still inhabited by Édouard de Cossé-Brissac.
The interior was renovated in the 18th century, and the park no longer exists, but the exterior remains largely unchanged. It was first registered as an historic monument on 13 January 1947.
Text adapted from “Château du Fayel” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Château du Fayel ranks #8,249 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #777 of the 793 mapped in France. Founded 1650, it is older than 25% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 721 atlas entries founded in the 17th century. 3 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Compiègne, 10 km away. See how France compares in the castle statistics.
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