LA FAUCONNERIE DU ROY Maison d'hôtes historique aux portes de Paris

Date Created: 01 September 2019

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Owner: LA FAUCONNERIE DU ROY Maison d'hôtes historique aux portes de Paris

Location: Montainville

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Installation of the falconry cabinet of the king in Montainville under Louis XIV
The hawk is used and understood as a symbol of power. The Royal Falconry is composed on the one hand of the birds of the Cabinet of the King (personal birds of the King) directed by Charles of Albert de Luynes and by a falconer nicknamed "Buissonnet". It is composed on the one hand by Royal Falconry proper, placed under the authority of the Grand Fauconnier de France, Monsieur de Châteaigneraie. It had 140 birds in 1616.

Louis XIV superbly and splendidly installed the Royal Falconry in a set of buildings of the Inner Park, in 1682 when the Court moved to Versailles. The ru of Gally, whose source is at Versailles and ends at the Maladrerie, is full of marshes suitable for game of all hairs and feathers. 
Around 1680, during the reign of Louis XIV, the Falconry of the King's Cabinet (personal birds of the King) moved to Montainville. Indeed, Jean-Claude FORGET writes in 1778: the crew of the Fauconnerie du Cabinet du Roi that I have the honor to command has been established for nearly a century in Montainville (Source AN series F14-195 - N ° 6 1778 O1- 977 - 981).
The property comprises a total of 8 hectares of land: French gardens and crops. The surrounding lands are still called "Falconry lands" (see IGN maps). By its prestige and its taste of ostentation, the Sun King maintains falconry on a royal footing. The charge of "Fauconnier de France" is one of the three most prestigious and most jealous charges of the court. The presentation of hawks usually takes place in the Hall of Mirrors on the occasion of the visit of the ambassadors bringing to the King their compliments for the new year. Only the Kings of the North and the Great Falconer could lay a hawk on the hand of the King. The King of Denmark gave, by virtue of an ancient tradition, falcons to the King of France.

There are four types of personnel in the King's Cabinet: the officers who often occupy this office on an honorary basis, the falconers, the true masters of the birds, the huntsmen (horsemen who run a pack), and the bearers of them. cages, which are falconer hawkers carrying hawks.
The staff of the Falconry Cabinet du Roi represent about sixty jobs whose activity, in addition to the animation it generates in the area, creates in the village a supplement of income to those of agriculture. The masters falconers constitute within the village a caste of small notables.

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