Trévise family
Aristocratic owners / patrons of the present Sceaux château
1829–1923 at Sceaux
Who they were
Anne-Marie Lecomte inherited Sceaux in 1829. Her husband, Napoléon Mortier, became the second Duke of Trévise in 1835 after his father’s death. Their estate had lost Colbert’s château and much of its earlier garden setting; the couple began a new chapter in its architectural history.
They commissioned the present brick-and-stone château from Joseph Le Soufaché and restored the gardens, fountains and sculpture. The museum’s building history dates construction to 1856–1862; its centenary exhibition gives the shorter range 1856–1860. Both accounts identify the Trévise couple as patrons of this nineteenth-century replacement, not of Colbert’s original house.
The next generation continued to use Sceaux as a country residence, but the estate declined after the marquis’s death and the First World War. Its sale to the Département de la Seine in 1923 ended this period of private ownership. This article covers successive members of the family, with Anne-Marie’s inheritance distinguished from her husband’s title.
Related residences
Sources
- Sceaux — Trévise chronology
- Sceaux — centenary exhibition and private ownership
- Sceaux — present château and construction dates
Short biography checked 10 October 2026. Lifespan and documented activity dates are labelled separately.