A little history on this magnificent Chateau de Rambouillet and the park's first castle, fortress, was built around 1370 for Jean Bernier, counselor of Charles V. Regnault Angennes of first equerry Chamberlain and Charles VI, acquired the estate in 1384. After the Hundred Years War, the castle is restored and decorated in a park. According to legend, Francis died there in 1547.
At the time of Angennes Jaques, in 1556, the architect Olivier Imbert produces Italian-inspired amenities, including the staircase and the marble hall of the ground floor. Fleuriau Armenonville becomes owner of the castle in 1699 and is dedicated to the beautification of the park. In particular, he dug canals and ponds in which he develop the islands.
In 1704, Count of Toulouse, the last legitimate son of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan, takes possession of the estate, where he welcomes the court. Many works are commissioned to the architect Jacques Sarda. The number of apartments is doubled due to the addition of two new wings old main building. The two wings are joined by a supporting wall in a semicircle and a grate. The ditches are filled, the drawbridge deleted and new canals dug. The Duke of Penthievre, son of the Count of Toulouse, sells Rambouillet by Louis XVI to supplement the facilities of the park and the city but do not redraft castle. A collection so unique is planted with exotic trees: maple Tartary, Japan varnish, Virginia pine and bald cypress in Louisiana. In 1804, attracted by the area despite the state of abandonment in which he had been since 1793, Napoleon commissioned the architect Auguste Farmin to develop the castle appointment in hunting and dwelling house. The restoration was completed in 1807 and the channels and ponds are cleaned. In 1810, Farmin installed a dining room, an extra bedroom, bathroom creates a Pompeian-style, closed in 1944 and created a long balcony outside the apartment together with those of the Emperor's Empress. In 1896, Felix Faure, the area officially became the presidential residence.
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