After the 1st battle of the Marne, Monsignor Marbeau, Bishop of Meaux, made a wish that the town of Meaux would be spared and decided to build a commemorative monument at the very place where the German advance was stopped.
Former stronghold of the Counts of Valois, the fortified castle was built around 1390 by Jean de Sépoix, advisor to King Charles V, on the site of an old fortified …