The Château de Vincennes is a former fortress and royal residence next in Vincennes in the departement Val de Marne, region île de France.
Acces to the castle is with the metro line 1 stop Château de Vincennes.
The castle was built between 1361 and 1369.
The donjon, the tallest in Europe, is built in the 14th century.
The chapel, Sainte-Chapelle de Vincennes was built in 1379 and completed in 1552.
North entrance (Village Tower)
Pavilion of the Queen.
The Charles V’s study room.
The bell-tower and clock.
In 1369, the bell-tower was the very first public clock in France.
The present bell-tower, restored in 2000,houses a copy of the bell, the original of which is kept in the Sainte-Chapelle.
Of all the clocks installed by Charles V in his Parisian residences, it is the only one to survive.
The Marquis de Sade’s cell.
He was imprisoned at Vincennes on two occasions.
He spent seven years at Vincennes before being transferred to the Bastille in 1784. He regained his freedom in 1790.
The painted decorations were done by prisoners. Those in this room were by Monseigneur Boulogne, confessor of Napoleon I, imprisoned on his orders.
This room is also believed to be one of the places in which the Comte de Mirabeau was kept prisoner.
He spent three years imprisoned at Vincennes, where he wrote Des lettres de cachet et des prisons d’État against the abuses of the royal
The chapel.
The chapel.
Main staircase of the Pavillon of the Queen.
Buste of General Louis de Lamoricière.
Halls of Emblems.
The former Throne Room.
Library.
At the left buste if George Clemenceau.
In the middle the statue of General Daumesnil