Sevres plate – Service Historique – Château d’Eu

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Le château d’Eu.
Porcelain painter: Nicolas-Antoine Lebel. 1842

Château d’Eu is a former royal residence in the town of Eu in Normandy, France.
It was built in the 16th century to replace an earlier one purposely demolished in 1475 to prevent its capture by the English. The chapel contains the tombs of Henry I, Duke of Guise, and his wife, Catherine de Clèves, who embarked on the construction of the château in 1578. The building was completed almost a century later by the Anne Marie Louise d’Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, la Grande Mademoiselle.
Between 1830 and 1848, the château, which had been the property of the House of Orléans since its acquisition by La Grande Mademoiselle in October 1657, served as King Louis-Philippe I’s summer residence.
Louis-Philippe twice entertained Queen Victoria at the château, from 3 to 7 September 1843 and from 8 to 10 September 1845.

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