Claude Lamoral II of Line

Claude Lamoral II, prince de Ligne (1685-1766) was the sixth prince of Ligne.

To advise State, it reorganizes the army in Belgium, and takes possession in the name of the emperor in 1720 of the cities and fortresses of Tournai, Ypres and Menin. This voyage through the Flanders and the Hainaut is surrounded by a great ostentation and accompanied by Te Deum and many receptions in each city.

But the philosopher's stone of prince Claude-Lamoral II is, without question, the field of Belœil. He spent of the million to give to his castle and his gardens a magnificence which ensures today still their celebrity: land acquisition being next to its residence, digging of channels encircling the park and nutritive water levels and fountains, bored of a prospect as far as the eye can see on the south-western frontage for the castle. No the doubt, it was the Versailles of Louis XIV that prince Claude-Lamoral wished to equalize. It had called upon the Parisian architect Jean-Michel Chevotet, large expert of the architectural production of the reign of the Sun king. The installation in 1761 of the carved group of Neptune at the end of the large water part was the completion of this masterpiece of garden to the Frenchwoman.

He had married Elisabeth Alexandrine de Salm.

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