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Ce qui fut d\u2019abord une forteresse m\u00e9di\u00e9vale renaquit au XIXe si\u00e8cle sous la forme d\u2019une r\u00e9invention audacieuse \u2014 \u00e0 la fois bastion historique et r\u00eave imp\u00e9rial.<br>En parcourant ses salles aux \u00e9chos puissants, on traverse les si\u00e8cles d\u2019un seul regard : les princes d\u2019Orl\u00e9ans, les canons de Richelieu, les ambitions de Napol\u00e9on III et les murmures laiss\u00e9s par les soldats de la Premi\u00e8re Guerre mondiale.  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Au XVIIe si\u00e8cle, le cardinal Richelieu ordonna son si\u00e8ge puis sa d\u00e9molition partielle afin d\u2019\u00e9viter qu\u2019il ne serve de refuge aux ennemis du pouvoir royal, laissant derri\u00e8re lui une ruine romantique.<br>En 1857, Napol\u00e9on III d\u00e9cida de redonner vie au site et confia sa restauration \u00e0 Eug\u00e8ne Viollet-le-Duc. L\u2019architecte ne se contenta pas de restaurer la forteresse : il la r\u00e9interpr\u00e9ta avec imagination pour en faire une possible r\u00e9sidence imp\u00e9riale. Il associa ainsi des d\u00e9fenses m\u00e9di\u00e9vales fid\u00e8lement reconstitu\u00e9es \u00e0 des int\u00e9rieurs richement d\u00e9cor\u00e9s, une cour principale spectaculaire, de grandes salles de c\u00e9r\u00e9monie et des appartements imp\u00e9riaux.<br>Pendant la Premi\u00e8re Guerre mondiale, le ch\u00e2teau servit de centre de soutien militaire et de caserne ; des graffitis laiss\u00e9s par des soldats sont encore visibles aujourd\u2019hui. \u00c0 l\u2019\u00e9poque contemporaine, Pierrefonds est \u00e9galement devenu un d\u00e9cor pris\u00e9 pour le cin\u00e9ma et la t\u00e9l\u00e9vision. Le monument accueille d\u00e9sormais les visiteurs sous la gestion du Centre des monuments nationaux.     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