Château de Chaillot

Nicolas Arrode, provost of Paris in 1217, gave his name to an old Parisian street, part of today's rue Montorgueil.

[1] This manor house was marked by a square tower, shown on Saint-Victor's 1552 map of Paris.

Henriette de France, the third daughter of Henri IV and widow of the executed King Charles I of England, a refugee in France since 1644 who wanted to live in a convent, chose Chaillot for the nuns of the Order of the Visitation, who bought the château, which the Bassompierres had bought for 80,000 livres, at auction on 12 May 1651 for 67,000 livres.

The buildings were destroyed by the Grenelle gunpowder factory explosion [fr] in 1794 after the nuns had left.

The whole complex stood on a walled estate of 30 arpents (about 15 hectares), including a park with staircases, ponds, fountains, forests, and a vegetable garden.