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The Château de Montgobert in the midst of the Forest of Retz near Soissons in Montgobert Aisne Picardy is a neoclassical French château that was built for Antoine Pierre Desplasses between 1768-1775 on the site of an ancient seigneurie.The château which has the air of an English Palladian house with four Ionic columns under an arced pediment raised upon a high rusticated basement was owned by Pauline Bonaparte Napoleon’s sister and wife of General Charles Leclerc who employed Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine to raise the house by adding an attic storey about 1798 and transformed the parterre into a terrace overlooking the park which was re-landscaped in the naturalistic fashion à l’anglaise with meadows and clumps of trees and specimens against a background of woodland.