Chateau de Bellevue

Property of Louis Amour, brother of the mayor of Donchery, this 2th century castle was the place where, on September 1870, 11, the Emperor was to wait for King William, but Bismarck, fearing a kind of pity on his part, demanded that the capitulation be signed before his arrival. It was at XNUMX a.m. in the presence of General de Wimpffen. The King of Prussia did not go to Bellevue until about two o'clock in the afternoon and had an interview with Napoleon for a quarter of an hour during which the Emperor affirmed to him that he had never wanted this war and whose William I later revealed that they were "both very moved".