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22-474: The commune of Champs-sur-Marne, famous for its château , is part of the Val Maubuée area, one of the four sectors in the " new town " of Marne-la-Vallée . Originally called simply Champs, the name of the commune became officially Champs-sur-Marne (meaning "Fields upon Marne ") on 9 April 1962. The inhabitants are often referred to as Campésiens . The term Champesois is also in use. Champs-sur-Marne

44-514: A Seine-et-Marne location is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ch%C3%A2teau de Champs-sur-Marne The Château de Champs-sur-Marne is a neoclassical château in Champs-sur-Marne , France. It was built in its present form for the treasurer Charles Renouard de la Touane in 1699 by Pierre Bullet , architecte du roi . After the first proprietor's bankruptcy, another financier, Paul Poisson de Bourvalais, took up

66-666: A fall during her 7th month of pregnancy. Years later Antoine Joseph married Marie Adèlaïde Deleinte with whom he had three children, Augustin, Alexandre and Theodore. His generosity won great popularity in the Faubourg St. Antoine. When the French Revolution erupted in 1789, he participated in the storming of the Bastille and was given command of a battalion of the Parisian National Guard . After

88-823: Is twinned with: Champs-sur-Marne is served by Noisy – Champs station on Paris RER line [REDACTED] . As of 2016 the commune has ten preschools with 1,138 students combined, and ten elementary schools with 1,729 students combined. The commune has three junior high schools, Armand Lanoux, Jean Weiner, and Pablo Picasso ; and there is an additional junior high school in a surrounding commune, Le Luzard in Noisiel . There are 1,799 junior high school students combined. The commune has one senior high school, Lycée René Descartes . Nearby senior high schools: There are also vocational high schools in Chelles , Thorigny , and Torcy. Tertiary education: This article related to

110-595: The Battle of Rossbach . As the king did not like the château, the marquise left it at the beginning of 1759. In 1763, the duke finally sold Champs to Gabriel Michel de Tharon (1702–1765), a rich shipowner. In 1820, Armand Santerre, nephew of the Revolutionary General Antoine Joseph Santerre , bought the parc Saint Martin surrounding the château. In 1855, his brother Ernest Santerre bought the château as well. Later, in 1895, it

132-730: The Champ de Mars Massacre on 17 July 1791, a warrant was issued for his arrest and Santerre went into hiding. He emerged again the following year to lead the people of the Faubourg St. Antoine, the eastern units, in the assault on the Tuileries Palace by the Paris mob, which overwhelmed and massacred the Swiss Guard as the royal family fled through the gardens and took refuge with the Legislative Assembly . Louis XVI

154-419: The 3rd. The others were Marguerite, born in 1750; Jean Baptiste, born in 1751; Armand Théodore, born in 1753; followed by François and Claire. The future general's father died in 1770, his mother just months later. His elder brother and sister, Marguerite and Jean Baptiste took charge of the household and family business, helping their mother raise the younger children, they never married. Armand Théodore went into

176-472: The Château de Champs-sur-Marne. Eventually, he tried to sell the domain, but he could not find a buyer and was forced to rent it out. Between July 1757 and January 1759, he leased the estate to Madame de Pompadour for 12,000 livres per year. The marquise spent 200,000 livres in less than eighteen months to renovate the château. In November 1757, she received the prince de Soubise there after his defeat at

198-546: The battle, reports circulated that Santerre himself had been killed; the Royalists even composed a humorous epitaph about his death. Nor was Santerre popular among the sans-culottes he commanded. Wounded soldiers returning to Paris reported that he was living in Oriental luxury and complained that their defeat was due either to his treason or his incompetence. Some demanded that he be relieved of his command or even sent to

220-400: The château with wall paintings by noted artist Christophe Huet . At the château, Louis César entertained many of the famous writers of the day, including Diderot , Voltaire , d'Alembert and François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif , with whom he also corresponded regularly. After the construction of a magnificent new château at Montrouge around 1750, however, the duke gradually abandoned

242-653: The drums so that Louis could speak to the people. Santerre was promoted to General of a division of the Parisian National Guard in July 1793. When the revolts broke out in the Vendée , Santerre took command of a force sent in to put a stop to the rebellions. He was not as successful as a military commander in the field; his first military operation saw the defeat of the Republican forces at Saumur . After

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264-400: The guillotine. On the other hand, Santerre was not in supreme command, and not considered responsible for the outcome of the war. In October, Santerre returned to Paris, where his popularity in the Faubourg St. Antoine was undiminished. Nevertheless, his report on this expedition, in which he drew attention to the plight of the Republican army in the Vendée, aroused suspicion. Accused of being

286-435: The princess cancelled a debt by deeding Champs to her first cousin, the duc de La Vallière. When the duke died in 1739, he left the château to his son and heir, the famous bibliophile , Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc . The new duc de La Vallière was later to become a trusted friend of King Louis XV and his mistress, Madame de Pompadour . Around 1750, the duke added a beautiful rococo salon chinois (Chinese salon) to

308-509: The project. Jean-Baptiste Bullet de Chamblain, the son of Pierre Bullet, finished Champs in 1706. Ten years later, Paul Poisson was in the Bastille on charges of embezzlement and the château was seized by the Crown. In 1718, it was sold to the princesse de Conti , natural daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his first official mistress, Louise de La Vallière . That same year, however,

330-447: The streets of Paris to the guillotine . There are differing accounts of his conduct at the execution itself. According to some, he ordered a drum roll halfway through the king's speech in order to drown out his voice. Others say that it was actually General J.F. Berruyer – the man in command of the execution – who ordered the drum roll, and that Santerre only relayed the order. Santerre's family maintained, however, that he actually silenced

352-632: The sugar business, and owned a factory in Essonnes, the other members of the family remained in the brewery business. François, known as François Santerre de la Fontinelle, had breweries in Sèvres, Chaville and Paris and Claire, the youngest, married a lawyer. Antoine Joseph was sent to school at the collèges des Grassins, followed by history and physics under M.M. Brisson and the abbot Nollet. His interest in physics led advances in beer production that pushed breweries out of their infancy. In 1770 Antoine Joseph

374-767: The way to the Marne , laid out about 1710 by Claude Desgotz , the nephew and pupil of André Le Nôtre ; it is surrounded by a landscape park laid out in the nineteenth century in the English fashion. Cyclone Lothar , the storm of 26 December 1999, did a great deal of damage to mature woodland in the park. 48°51′14″N 2°36′15″E  /  48.85389°N 2.60417°E  / 48.85389; 2.60417 Antoine Joseph Santerre Antoine Joseph Santerre ( French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan ʒozɛf sɑ̃tɛʁ] ; 16 March 1752 in Paris  – 6 February 1809)

396-662: Was a businessman and general during the French Revolution . The Santerre family moved from Saint-Michel-en-Thiérache to Paris in 1747 where they purchased a brewery known as the Brasserie de la Magdeleine . Antoine Santerre married his third cousin Marie Claire Santerre, daughter of a wealthy bourgeois brewer, Jean François Santerre, from the Cambrai in March 1748. The couple had six children, Antoine Joseph being

418-425: Was emancipated, and 2 years later, with his inheritance he purchased with his brother François Mr. Acloque's brewery at 232 Faubourg St. Antoine for 65,000 French Francs. In that same year he married his childhood sweetheart, the daughter of his neighbour, Monsieur Francois, another wealthy brewer. Antoine Joseph was 20 years old and Marie François was sixteen. Marie died the following year from an infection derived from

440-516: Was finally sold to comte Louis Cahen d'Anvers, who thoroughly restored it, installing boiseries designed by Germain Boffrand that had been removed from the Hôtel de Mayenne, Paris, and recreated its parterre gardens in the hands of Achille Duchêne . Marcel Proust was among the guests in this era at Champs. Louis Cahen d'Anvers' son Charles made a gift of it to the state in 1935. The residence

462-536: Was modernised in 1959 to ready it for visiting heads of state of the French Union . In 1974 it was opened to the public and ceased its official capacity. It has served as a location for many films since then, while the Monuments Historiques employ some outbuildings as research facilities. The château looks onto a grand parterre with two basins and an extended central axis that sweeps down all

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484-510: Was officially removed as king soon after. Santerre was appointed by the National Convention to serve as the jailer of the former king. He notified Louis that the motion had passed for his execution, and the next day, at eight o'clock on a 21 January morning, Santerre arrived at the convicted man's room and said, "Monsieur, it's time to go". He escorted Louis XVI through the some eighty thousand armed men and countless citizens down

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