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Chantilly

Continuity channels change

Our visit centers on the château, the celebrated stables and the racetrack, and emphasizes how townspeople place respect for the past and the environment over commerce.

 

•Art-history excursion 

Château entrance

         

         

        • Reconciling change and soul began when the Duke d'Aumale (1822-1897) bequeathed his château and art collection to the Republic...

         

        •Château visit

        ...an immense decision when his circle called the Republic "the whore".

         

         

        With its Poussins, Delacroix, Corots ... this collection is the most important

        in France after that of the Louvre.

         

         
        • The races derive from a prince's stables, the most splendid in Europe

         

         

        Stables of the Prince of Condé, the Sun King's cousin
        Race-track

        The 19th-century hippodrome was recently restored in a way that scrupulously

        respects the past.

         

         

        • What is missing on this artery?

         

         

        There are no almost no advertisements!


        •We can arrange a meeting with the official who heads the environmental protection  policy.

         

         

        • Our colleague in Chantilly is the hippodrome's director and...

         

         

         

        ...former organizer of the "Paris Parade", through which thousands of American high-school bands and cheerleaders joined the residents of Chantilly and Montmartre for a genuine exchange of cultures every New Year from 1988 to 2002.

         

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