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The former Château d’Auteuil had been destroyed at the end of the 16th Century and had been abandoned by its owner. This one chose another neighbouring castle, which was more modest. But the former castle had been renovated and fortified at the end of the 16th Century and seems to have been finished off in the 17th Century. This castle is located on the Berneuil-en-Bray territory and has been baptised “Chateau d’Auteuil”.
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From this new castle, we can only see the huge base (with its ancient equipment in flint and its brick clamping) which is surrounded with moat and we can also see the rest of the foundations of the destroyed former castle.
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The Chateau d’Auteuil had been almost totally rebuilt in 1858 on the ancient bases and almost identical to the former construction. It has the same classical plan of the castles of the 17th Century, built in bricks and stones. After the Second World War the roof of the projecting part of the aim home has been a lot modified after being destroyed by a fire.
The vast property (the typically French gardens, the meadows and the woods for hunting) has been broken up in the 20th Century between different owners: a part has been transformed in an important stud farm and the rest hasn’t been really modified, except where the hydraulic network has been buried.
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Texts: Jean-Michel Schill, according to Pascale Touzet’s inventory file. – Direction régionale des Affaires Culturelles de Picardie.
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