Les Sentes de Seine-Port

Some authors give 1156 as the date of its consecration, but this seems a long way off. It is more reasonable to think that it dates from the early 13th century. Saint Sulpice, bishop of Bourges under Clotaire II, is its patron saint.The nave was extended in 1652. In 1786, Madame de Montesson had the chapel of Saint Louis built against the right-hand wall of the choir, for the burial of the Duke of Orléans.

This park probably dates from 1803 - 1804. It was designed by the famous agronomist Jean Augustin Victor Yvart (1763-1831), who retired here in 1824.

Château de la Chesnaie was once home to Count Roy, Minister of Finance under the Restoration; today it is a state school. The north facade overlooks a small square where you can see the gate of the former kitchen garden facing the château.

Louis-Amédée Mantes, double bassist at the Opéra and one of the inventors of colour photography, lived at no. 5 Avenue Jobert.Her three daughters, nicknamed "Mantes les Jolies", were dancers at the Paris Opera and became famous for having served as models for the painter Degas.

The Maison Rouge was inhabited in 1842 by the author and academician Ernest Legouvé (who died in 1903), then by his grandson Emile Paladilhe, composer of the opera "Patrie" and friend of Gounod.

The Maison de Villemessant, where the founder of Le Figaro lived from 1864 to 1868. It has been a retirement home since 1934.

The Villa Déjazet was once home to Baron Bosio, an official artist under the First Empire and the Restoration.He sculpted, among other things, the Quadriga in the Carroussel at the Louvre, and the equestrian statue of Louis XIV in the Place des Victoiers in Paris. He sold the villa to Virginie Déjazet, who lived there from 1840 to 1874. Born in 1798, she began performing on stage at the age of 5. She became a famous actress and knew all of Paris, receiving Dumas père, Victorien Sardou, Adolphe Adam and many others. She died in poverty and is buried at Père Lachaise in Paris.

The Place de Madame de Montesson owes its name to Charlotte Béraud de la Haye de Riou, Marquise de Montesson, the morganatic wife of the Duc d'Orléans (1772).A benefactress of Seine Port, she donated this square, which used to be a jeu de paume. She had four streets dug and many houses built in the village. She was the aunt of Madame de Genlis, Louis Philippe's governess. She left Seine Port after the death of her husband in 1786.