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Château d'Hérouville

18th-century architecture in FranceBuildings and structures completed in 1740Châteaux in Val-d'OiseRecording studios in France
Château d'Hérouville
Château d'Hérouville

The Château d'Hérouville (commonly referred to as Honky Château) is a French 18th-century château located in the village of Hérouville, in the Val d'Oise département of France, near Paris. The château was built in 1740 by "Gaudot", an architect of the school of Rome, from the remains of an earlier 16th-century château. In the 19th century, it was used as a courier relay station (between Versailles and Beauvais) and stabled hundreds of horses.Several accounts, including one by the BBC, suggest that in the mid-19th century, composer Frédéric Chopin conducted his love affair with the writer George Sand there. The château was painted by Vincent van Gogh, who is buried nearby. The estate also doubled as a recording studio starting in the late 1960s, producing iconic hit records throughout the 1970s, until a closure in 1985. The studio reopened in 2020.

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Château d'Hérouville
Rue Paul Bagnard, Pontoise

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Rue Paul Bagnard
95300 Pontoise
Ile-de-France, France
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