Château des Cèdres

Denis Néret, procurator at the Paris Chamber, had the Château des Cèdres built at Montfermeil, in the Seine-Saint-Denis, around 1640. His heirs kept it for nearly a century after his death.

When it was built, architecture followed the rules of classicism. The artists of this period, roughly the reign of Louis XIII (1610-1643), freely interpreted Greco-Roman art, as in the Renaissance, using curved and broken lines and the Doric, Ionic and Corinthian orders. Ornament wavered between Greco-Roman sobriety and the showy elements of Italian and Flemish Baroque; the architect of the Château des Cèdres chose the former.

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