Chantilly
The Condé Stables
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Louis-Henri de Bourbon believed he would be reincarnated as a horse and built stables for 240 of them in 1719 — grander than most palaces, and still holding a working equestrian school. The château's Condé museum keeps the second-largest collection of pre-1850 French paintings after the Louvre, hung as its owner arranged it and forbidden by his will to be moved.
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