Louis XIV stay
- Louis XIV was the brother-in-law of Charles II, the childless King of Spain. An excellent pretext to take over part of the heritage: the Franche-Comté and a stripe of 200 km to the north of Saint-Quentin.
- During the summer 1675, the Sun-King constrained Jeanne d' Harscamp, widow of Jacques of Beaufort-Spontin, to lodge him, while he besieged Dinant.
- Louis XIV discovered in Freÿr the 4 wings and the monumental baroque porch, as they were built by Hubert of Beaufort-Spontin and his wife Marguerite de Berlaymont (1637).
- In Autumn 1675, peace was signed in the drawing-room along the Meuse, where today a quite curious portrait of the Sun King is to be discovered.
- He is seated. A finger points towards his double: a bald old man. No sceptre, but the staff of a war-lord. This faithless man carries proudly the Order of the Holy Ghost. The wig of an actor and a costume worthy of the Bougeois Gentleman!
- An enigma? Not really; you will know the solution upon visiting the place.
