France · Demolished
Château de Choisy
The Château de Choisy was a royal residence on the Seine at Choisy-le-Roi near Paris, built and altered for members of the royal family in the 17th–18th centuries. Enlarged by Ange-Jacques Gabriel under Louis XV, it included a Petit Château, a theatre, orangerie and extensive parterres facing the river. The main buildings were demolished in the nineteenth century; only ancillary pavilions and fragments of service wings remain on the site today.
First raised
1678
Its prime
1752
Today
Demolished
As it stood in 1752
The shape it held in its prime.
A long, symmetrical rectangular corps de logis two storeys high with a mansard attic roof pierced by regular dormer windows; a central three-bay projection with a classical pediment bearing sculptural reliefs; rows of tall, evenly spaced windows and pilaster-like vertical divisions across the façade. In front, a broad terrace and formal parterres step down to a ha-ha and the Seine; two small flanking pavilions mark the edges of the former cour d'honneur. No towers or crenellations.
Its story
The story of Château de Choisy.
Choisy began with Mlle de Montpensier, who was advised to open up her 'vilaine situation' by laying low the dense woods that shut the site off from the Seine — 'there one only saw the riverbank as if through a dormer window'. The château passed in 1693 to the Grand Dauphin, who had interior modifications executed before exchanging it in 1695 for Meudon, more accessible from Versailles.
In 1716 it was sold to Marie Anne de Bourbon, dowager princesse de Conti, the legitimised daughter of Louis XIV and Louise de la Vallière; on her death in 1739 it was sold to Louis XV, who gave the commune its present name of Choisy-le-Roi. Ange-Jacques Gabriel enlarged the château, which gained a Petit Château, an orangerie, riverfront parterres and the theatre Gabriel built for Mme de Pompadour — later the model for Marie Antoinette's Théâtre de la Reine at Versailles.
After Louis XV's death Marie Antoinette came often to Choisy. At the Revolution the château was confiscated as a bien national, emptied of its contents at auction and its grounds divided into lots and sold; the main buildings were demolished in the nineteenth century, leaving only ancillary pavilions and fragments of the service wings on the site.
Step inside
8 places to explore in 1752.
The record describes 8 distinct spots at Château de Choisy — including 3 interiors: pavillon particulier (petit château) — circular vestibule and salon, théâtre interior by gabriel, orangerie central salon with sculpture. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
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Clans who held Château de Choisy.
The families that held Château de Choisy for a decade or more across its history — follow a name to its clan.
Bourbon
A Bourbon royal residence — the princesse de Conti held it from 1716, then Louis XV from 1739 until the Revolution confiscated it.
