Médan Castle

Sitting on a hillside by the banks of the Seine in an area immortalised by Paul Cézanne, this former hunting lodge was built in the late 15th century, with memories of Ronsard and Renaissance poets from La Pléiade, as well as King Henri IV and his love for the beautiful Gabrielle d’Estrées still remaining there today.

Here too, in 1924, Maurice Maeterlinck – a Belgian writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and author of Pelléas and Mélisande and the fairy play The Blue Bird – fell in love with the place and decided to call it home.
Occupied by the Germans during World War Two, the castle was abandoned before being restored to its former glory by new owners, who love to greet visitors personally and tell them the castle’s tale.

Not only is the Château de Médan on the French supplementary historic monument list, it also bears the Maisons des Illustres label, denoting places that preserve the memory of notable figures in French history.

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