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Jardin de la Laiterie de la Reine : études récentes sur le Domaine de Rambouillet by Jérémy DUPANLOUP – Château de Bénouville
Jardin de la Laiterie de la Reine , recent studies on the Rambouillet estate
The ornamental gardens of the Château de Rambouillet (80ha) comprise a relatively unknown State-owned property. Yet, when Louis XVI acquired the estate, just 6 years prior to the French Revolution, he created an agronomy research centre there. Relying on the organisation in place within the estate, he had a productive structure built and organised the creation of an animal and plant experimentation centre, where North American species in particular were acclimatised following their introduction via André Michaux’s mission. Concurrently, the king entrusted Hubert Robert, Designer of the King’s Gardens, and Jean-Jacques Thévenin, architect, with the task of conducting further developments within the estate, the most significant of which was the Laiterie de la Reine (Queen’s Dairy). It is via the study of the dairy garden (4ha), referred to as the “arboretum”, that we will talk of the specific interferences experienced at Rambouillet, between the ornamental, productive and experimental gardens, together with the work of Hubert Robert on the estate.
Jérémy Dupanloup
Jérémy Dupanloup is an HMONP certified architect. At the intersection between the disciplinary fields of the architect, the historian and the archaeologist, he developed a keen interest in industrial heritage (finalist of the CILAC young researcher’s prize in 2011, for his research and valorisation project for the Galicière silk throwing plant; winner of the UFBA bursary for his comparative study on textile proto-industrialisation in England and the Rhône valley in 2012) before specialising in historic gardens. He concurrently continued his professional activity with G. Desgrandchamps, a heritage architect. The Jardin de la Laiterie de la Reine was the subject of an operational study, conducted in 2014 for the Centre des Monuments Nationaux within the framework of the Master’s Degree entitled “Jardins historiques, patrimoine et paysage” (Historic gardens, heritage and landscape) at the ENSAV Versailles/University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, by A. Bougeard and C. Peignart and directed by S. de Courtois and D. Mirallié.