page_title: Château de Meudon
section_title: The Great Perspective
hierarchical_section_title: Château de Meudon / Detail of the domain / The gardens / The Great Perspective
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Vue du jardin et parc du château de Meudon apartenant à Monseigneur le marquis de Louvois. Gravure par Israel Silvestre. Vue prise de la “Loggia” montrant la Grande Perspective du château vers 1685.
context_page_description: Meudon Castle, also known as the Royal Castle of Meudon or Imperial Palace of Meudon, is a French castle located in Meudon in the Hauts-de-Seine department. At the edge of a wooded plateau, the castle offers views of Paris and the Seine river, as well as of the valley of Chalais. Located between Paris and Versailles, in the heart of a hunting reserve, the castle has an ideal topography for large gardens. It had many successive owners from the Renaissance until the fall of the Second French Empire. It should not be confused with the Bellevue Castle, also located in Meudon.
  Famous past residents include: Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly, Duchess of Étampes; the Cardinal of Lorraine, Abel Servien; François Michel Le Tellier Marquis de Louvois, and Louis, Grand Dauphin, also known as Monseigneur, who linked the Chaville Castle to Meudon Castle. The Château-Vieux burned down in 1795 and was rebuilt as the Château-Neuf, which in turn burned down in 1871. Demolition was considered, but most of the castle was preserved and became an observatory with an astronomical telescope in 1878, it was then attached to the Observatory of Paris in 1927.
context_section_description: The Great Perspective is the monumental axis that organizes all the area of Meudon. It is perfectly rectilinear over a distance of 3.5 km, despite the unevenness of the terrain. It was created on both sides of the Château-Vieux, a place occupied from the beginning.
  At its apogee, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, it was composed as follows (from north to south):
  Avenue du château (planted with four rows of trees)
  First ditches
  Front yard (on the right, terrace of the chestnut trees)
  Second ditches (buried under the terrace)
  Courtyard of the Château-Vieux, known as the royal court
  The Château-Vieux (destroyed, cellars preserved)
  The floor, designed by André Le Nôtre (destroyed)
  The Orangerie, of Louis Le Vau, with a circular basin
  The parterre of the Orangerie, with a rectangular basin
  Lawn, with a white marble statue, unidentified
  The basin known as the "Grand Carré" (destroyed)
  New lawn, shorter than first
  The water grid, with 10 jets of water (destroyed)
  Other lawn, longer
  The pond of Chalais (on the right, the carp channel)
  The Green Carpet
  The pavilion of Trivaux (under Louis XVI) (destroyed)
  The axis ended at an alley drawn on the plateau of Trivaux.
caption: Estampe d'Israël Silvestre représentant la Grande Perspective de Meudon, vers 1685. Vue depuis le haut de l'Orangerie.
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