Château d'Haroué

The Château d'Haroué hires its salons and its French-style garden for seminars, meetings, product launches, cocktails and dinners, and for weddings and private celebrations. Private visits can be booked outside opening hours. The château stands in the village of Haroué, in the Saintois area of Meurthe-et-Moselle, south of Nancy. It does not publish capacities, so each project is sized with the hire team.

Seminars and company events

Companies use the château for seminars and meetings, for product launches and for receptions with clients and partners. A working session in the salons can be followed by a private visit of the state rooms, with their Louis XVIII furniture, the tapestry series on the history of Alexander the Great, the state bedroom and the Pillement salon. Guided visits are limited to 20 people at a time, so larger groups are split. From early November to mid-December the château opens only to pre-booked groups, with visits booked at least a week ahead.

Weddings and receptions

The salons and the garden host weddings, birthdays, dinners and cocktails. The French-style parterre in front of the south front gives an outdoor setting for drinks and photographs, with the moat and towers behind.

Rooms and capacities

The hire offer covers the salons of the château and the French-style garden. Room names and guest numbers are given by the hire and filming team on request, together with the terms for an evening event.

History and setting

A medieval fortress first stood here until Antoine de Vaudémont destroyed it in the 15th century. In the 16th century the Bassompierre family turned the old fortified house into a Renaissance palace to plans by Nicolas La Hiere, keeping the four medieval towers and the moat. By the early 18th century the house was in ruins again. Marc de Beauvau, Prince de Craon, grand constable of Lorraine and friend of Duke Léopold, commissioned Germain Boffrand to rebuild it, and the work ran from 1720 to 1729. Boffrand kept the foundations, the U-shaped plan, the moat and the towers, and called in leading artists of the day for the interiors. The château is known for its 365 windows, 52 chimneys, 12 towers and turrets and four bridges over the moat, which earned it the name of the little Chambord of Lorraine. The park of about 15 hectares was designed by Louis Ferdinand de Nesle, and the parterre in front of the south front was completed only in the 1950s. The Beauvau-Craon family has lived here for eight generations. The château is a listed historic monument and is now presented within the network of the Centre des monuments nationaux.

Getting there

The address is place du Château, 54740 Haroué, and a car park is available in front of the château. From Nancy, the A330 and then the D913 lead to Haroué. From Épinal, take the N57 and then the D9, and from Mirecourt the D913. The nearest station listed by the château is Pont-Saint-Vincent.