page_title: Château de Meudon
section_title: Council antechamber
hierarchical_section_title: Château de Meudon / Detail of the domain / Vieux-Chateau / Rooms on the ground floor / The apartment said of Louis XIV / Council antechamber
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Essai de restitution de l'antichambre de Louis XIV au premier étage du château-vieux de Meudon, servant de salle du Conseil. Vers 1696-1711.
context_page_description: Meudon Castle, also known as the Royal Castle of Meudon or Imperial Palace of Meudon, is a French castle located in Meudon in the Hauts-de-Seine department. At the edge of a wooded plateau, the castle offers views of Paris and the Seine river, as well as of the valley of Chalais. Located between Paris and Versailles, in the heart of a hunting reserve, the castle has an ideal topography for large gardens. It had many successive owners from the Renaissance until the fall of the Second French Empire. It should not be confused with the Bellevue Castle, also located in Meudon.
  Famous past residents include: Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly, Duchess of Étampes; the Cardinal of Lorraine, Abel Servien; François Michel Le Tellier Marquis de Louvois, and Louis, Grand Dauphin, also known as Monseigneur, who linked the Chaville Castle to Meudon Castle. The Château-Vieux burned down in 1795 and was rebuilt as the Château-Neuf, which in turn burned down in 1871. Demolition was considered, but most of the castle was preserved and became an observatory with an astronomical telescope in 1878, it was then attached to the Observatory of Paris in 1927.
context_section_description: This room without woodwork had three windows on the side of the floor and two French windows on the side of the courtyard allowing access to the balcony. The mantelpiece was of Campanian green marble.
caption: Reconstruction of the antichamber of Louis XIV on the first floor of the château-vieux, used as a council chamber. Ca 1696-1711. As seen leaving the king's chamber
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