Laid out first by Louis XIV who had 75 stays there punctuated by sumptuous parties, the old chateau was entirely reconstructed by Louis XV. But it was the Empire that brought it its renown, when Napoléon the first made it the Imperial mansion in 1806..

The museum was created in 1927 on the initiative of the Touring Club of France. The collection of old cars in includes especially limousines, touring versions and models. You must see - the Madeleine-Bastille omnibus, the shooting brake of the Duches..

In an atmosphere dotted with lots of small galleries, the museum provides numerous images of the court, of life in general and of the arts under the Second Empire. Princess Matilda (1820-1904), the Empress Eugenie are the major figures there. Drawing..

This vista leading out across woodland from the Chateau of Compiègne, is four kilometres long an attractive view from the « viewpoint of the Beaumont post» towards the Chateau which you can make out in the distance.

The Compi 8gne Forest estate (14,500 ha), a remnant of the immense Cuise forests, will seduce you with its tall beech forests, its valleys, ponds, villages and magnificent avenues. 1,500 kilometres of roads and tracks furrow the Forest. Near to Compi..

With more than 100,000 figurines in tin, lead, wood, plastic, paper and cardboard, this museum offers an interesting retrospective look at the evolution of costume and recall historic events such as the Battle of Waterloo and the Review of the French..

This remarkable building was built under Louis XII in the late Gothic style. The Belfry has two floors and a slate spire and houses the «Bancloque» a clock from 1303 where the «Three Picantins» sound the hours.

The museum, set up in the Songeons town house, an attractive dwelling situated in a public garden, has collections of Greek and Roman antiquities, paintings (including a retable by Wolgemut, Durer's master), ceramics, Ivory's and enamels.

This is a 15 C half-timbered house where the Bridge masters used to live, pilots for the harbour craft.

Old Royal keep or Governor's tower, it's a remnant of the palace of Charles the Bald.

This Gothic Church was decorated in the 18 C (marble, wood panelling) with a luxury that explains the fact that it was the parish Church of the King and of the court. Its tower (15 C) is the highest in the town. The chancel and the transept have main..

The statue on horseback of Joan of Arc by Fremiet marks the place where the Maid of Orleans fell at the hands of the English on 23rd May 1430 following an unhappy initiative by the governor of Compiègne.

The current layout of the Little Park dates from the Second Empire. But it was Napoleon 1 who had it laid out in the English style, in order to join up the chateau with the Forest, at the price of destroying the Gabriel staircase.

The military barracks of Royallieu (1913) were transformed in June 1940 into a camp, "Frontstalag 122". Since February 2008 a sober and discreet memorial has stood here. In front of the memorial entrance, the glass steles of the Wall of Na..