Chateau Park in the former presidential residence Webcam - Eu

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Eu Castle is a former royal residence in the city of Eu, in the Seine-Maritime department of France, in Normandy. Eu Castle stands in the center of the city and was built in the 16th century to replace an earlier one, which was deliberately demolished in 1475 to prevent its capture by the British. The chapel contains the tombs of Henry I, Duke of Guise, and his wife, Catherine of Cleves, who started building the castle in 1578. The building was completed nearly a century later by Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, Grand Mademoiselle. Between 1830 and 1848, the château, owned by the Orléans family since its acquisition by the Grand Mademoiselle in October 1657, served as the summer residence of King Louis Philippe. Louis Philippe twice entertained Queen Victoria at the castle, from 3 to 7 September 1843 and from 8 to 10 September 1845. The castle became the residence of the Brazilian imperial family during their exile. Isabelle, Princess Imperial of Brazil, who ended slavery in Brazil in 1888, died at the castle in 1921. Her husband was Prince Gaston, Count of Eu, grandson of King Louis Philippe I. Their eldest son, Pedro de Alcantara, Prince of Grao Para, sold the castle to the Brazilian entrepreneur Assis Chateaubriand. In 1964, the city of Eu acquired the castle, in which it established its town hall in 1973 and created the Musée Louis-Philippe. In 1987, the castle, its annexes and the park were classified as a historical monument by the French Ministry of Culture.