- Blérancourt
Infobox Commune de France
nomcommune=Blérancourt
région=Picardie
département=Aisne
arrondissement=Laon
canton=Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique
insee=02093
cp=02300
maire=Patrick Laplace
mandat=2008-2014
intercomm=sans
longitude=3.151389
latitude=49.516944
alt moy=60 m
alt mini=53
alt maxi=159 m
hectares=1080
km²=10,8
sans=1193
date-sans=1999
dens=110|Blérancourt is a commune in the department of
Aisne inPicardie in northernFrance .The Château de Blérancourt, an influential design by
Salomon de Brosse houses the National Museum of French-American Friendship and Cooperation, (Musée franco- américain), founded by Anne Morgan, daughter of the financierJ. Pierpont Morgan (due to reopen in 2007). The "corps de logis " of the château no longer exists, but de Brosse's twin cubical stone pavilions and a grand entrance gateway approached by a stone bridge across amoat (now dry) survive. The pavilions have identical façades on all sides, framed in rusticated quoins at the corners: each consists of a pair of pedimented windows that make a composition with a central "oeil de boeuf" window under a hemicyclical arch that carries the dentilled cornice across and breaks into the roof balustrading above. Slate roofs with cyma curves converge to a central four-sided cap. The central gateway takes the form of atriumphal arch with a prominentkeystone . TheJardins du Nouveau Monde , on its grounds, contain anarboretum and garden plants from the New World.The house of
Louis de Saint-Just now houses a museum devoted to theFrench Revolution .ee also
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Communes of the Aisne department References
* [http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/museo_fr?ACTION=CHERCHER&FIELD_4=REF&VALUE_4=0209301 Ministère de Culture: Blérancourt]
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