Just to be clear, we are not in Picardie yet, even though it is not far at all.
This castle and its park are next to my guest's home, where his Mom welcomed me.
Hervé lives in San Francisco, but his French accent is still very THICK!

You can have a better idea here about what the castle of Sceaux looks like.
The former château was built for Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV's minister of finance, who purchased the domain in 1670
Later, during the French Revolution the property was confiscated as a “bien national”, its contents sold for the benefit of the nation, and the building bought by M. Lecomte, a merchant of Saint-Malo.
Under the Consulat, the original château was demolished, but the pavilion of Aurore, the Orangerie, the stables, and outbuildings were preserved.
The Duc de Trévise, son of Napoleon's Maréchal Mortier, who had married the daughter of M. Lecomte, inherited the domaine and set to restoring the park and the pavilion and Orangerie.
The gardens were restored, with parterres and gravel largely replaced by clipped lawns. In 1856-62 he erected the present smaller château in brick with stone quoins, designed to evoke the style of Louis XIII, designed by the architect Augustin Théophile Quantinet and built by Joseph-Michel Le Soufaché.