Château de Navarre
Évreux, France
No longer standing
Demolished or destroyed.
The Château de Navarre was a château near Évreux in Normandy with a complex architectural history spanning centuries. Originally built in 1330 for Queen Joan II of Navarre, wife of Count Philip of Évreux, the medieval structure passed through numerous hands before a dramatic reconstruction in 1750. The new building, created possibly by a relative of the marshal Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, departed radically from its predecessor: a cubic form surmounted by a lead-covered dome, with four granite stairways leading to four entrances and balustrades on all sides. A grand statue of Marshal Turenne was intended to crown the dome but was never realized. The château later became the residence of Joséphine de Beauharnais following her separation from Napoleon, and subsequently housed the Comte Roy, the Duke of Bouillon, and the Duke of Leuchtenberg. Fire consumed the structure in 1834, and its remains were demolished two years later. The site was subsequently developed as a racecourse, while the surrounding forest of Évreux eventually passed to the city in 1981.
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- Built
- Type
- château
- Place
- Évreux, France
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