page_title: Château de Meudon
section_title: Meudon under the Restoration and the Orleans
hierarchical_section_title: Château de Meudon / History / 19th century: between pomp and decline / Meudon under the Restoration and the Orleans
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Photographie du château-neuf de Meudon en 1850, prise par Louis-Auguste Martin (1811-1875). Albertina Museum, FotoGLV2000/13822/7
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: Louis Louis XVIII, Charles X and Louis-Philippe used Meudon as a hunting ground near Versailles, eminent.
  Charles Ferdinand, son of Charles X, went there to hunt between 1815 and 1820.
  After his abdication of the Imperial throne of Brazil on April 7, 1831 Peter I of Brazil) returned to Europe and settled in France with the title of Duke of Braganza. In the autumn of 1831 he spent some time at the Château-Neuf, an estate the king Louis-Philippe freely put at his disposal. During his stay in France, he became a friend of the famous General La Fayette.
  A stud was then installed below the old gardens at the bottom of Meudon. The Prince of Orleans, under the July Monarchy, stayed there in 1834 and wrote his memoirs there. But he died accidentally in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1842.
  Louis-Philippe also made available the castle of Meudon to Marshal Soult, who stayed there several times in summer.
  On May 8, 1842, a railway catastrophe took place in Meudon, in which Jules Dumont d'Urville perished. It was the first in France and one of the first in the world. Louis-Philippe I offered the Château-Neuf to treat survivors.
  After the revolution of 1848, plans were made to make Meudon the new headquarters of the Ecole Polytechnique (Ecole Polytechnique). But these grandiose projects, one of which was established by the architect Hector-Martin Lefuel, in the end did not see the light of day.
caption: Photograph of Château-Neuf in 1850 taken by Louis-Auguste Martin (1811-1875). Albertina Museum, FotoGLV2000/13822/7
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