French language Built from 1538 for Anne de Montmorency, constable of France under the reigns of François I and Henri II, Ecouen is the masterpiece of one of the most prominent French architects of the Renaissance: Jean Bullant. A warlord, of course, but also a great art lover, initiated into the Renaissance style during the Italian campaigns, Montmorency invites the best artists of the kingdom to the site: the sculptor Jean Goujon, the ceramists Bernard Palissy and Masséot Abaquesne... Later, for the Condé family who succeeded the Montmorency family in 1632, Jules Hardouin-Mansart redesigned
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