The Château de Chanteloup and its 15-hectare park have clearly lost their luster in Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon (Essonne).
The building in its original state has however been described by specialists Matthieu Dejean and Perrine Galand-Willemen, quoted by Actu Essonne, as "one of the wonders of the French Renaissance" where kings of France came to hunt.
As for the garden, it "could compete with the great Italian gardens of the time", estimated the authors of a book devoted to the site.
Today, everything is quite different.
The building has been uninhabited since the 1950s and has not been maintained for several decades.
The doors and windows on the first level were sealed with bricks.
The situation got even worse on December 4, when a fire broke out on the roof.
The intervention of around thirty firefighters and around twenty vehicles was complicated by fragile floors.
The flames destroyed nearly half of the roof.
The building is now at risk of collapse, firefighters said.
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