Château de Clagny near the Palace of Versailles, 1726

The Château de Clagny near the Palace of Versailles, residence of Madame de Montespan. Plate no. 56 in part III of the print work: Les Forces de l'Europe, Asie, Afrique et Amerique ... Comme aussi les Cartes des Côtes de France et d'Espagne, 1726. This first part contains 238 hand-numbered plates of famous fortified cities and strongholds in the context of the War of the Spanish Succession 1701–1713. Most of these plates are copied from anonymous French plates of famous fortified cities and strongholds: in Les forces de l'Europe and in: Le theatre de la guerre, dans les Pays-Bas, both originally published by Nicolas de Fer in Paris (1693–1697) in the context of the Nine Years' War. Title in French.