COUBERT Castle (Seine-et-Marne), 1812, for sale, to be demol - Lot 568

COUBERT Castle (Seine-et-Marne), 1812, for sale, to be demolished. 7-page folio manuscript. “Appraisal of the COUBERT estate, based on leases and timber sales. ” 1812: the Château, the outbuildings, the farmyard, the park, the vegetable garden, the orangery—“all designated for demolition”—the ponds, the farms (“the Vitry Farm”), the woods, and income from the park; Total valuation of this estate: 2,265,500 livres. “It is left to the purchaser to verify… the fair market value…. For this price, one may acquire an ancestral estate known as one of the most beautiful in the Paris region, built and decorated, situated near a town… in one of the most fertile and densely populated provinces, and which, finally, combines all the charms of the most beautiful and useful estates, since it features a very large hunting ground on the property—ideal for game—and the Château de COUBERT is at the center of all these holdings. ” with “Plan of the Château and Park of COUBERT, scale of 200 toises. ” Hand-drawn watercolor plan (34 x 44 cm). (The Count of COUBERT, who emigrated during the Revolution; the Château de Coubert, sold as national property, was destroyed during the Restoration to recover “lead and iron.”)