Located on the right after the staircase of stucco, this part begins the visit of the Castle. It´s a small room, and seem to precede the visit, and rarely calls the visitor's attention. He should however notice the decoration of the part (going back to Napoléon III), just as the decorated stained glass and the two vases, one of warriors, and the other of women surrounded of loves (These vases are out of porcelain of Sèvre). In this hall, we can also notice the presence of various paintings which restore the aspect that the part at the end of the Second Empire had, specialy two paintings of Jean Lemaire (1598 - 1659), artist influenced by Poussin, Danse de femmes dans un palais and Péristyle d'un palais en ruine (in front of the windows, at the top). One can also see (when it is not in restoration), Mignonne et Sylvie, 1728, ordered in Jean Baptiste Oudry par Louis XV who wished to have the portraits of his favorite dogs.

The large stained glass installed in central bay is entitled the Artist. It is a work of the Master - glassmaker Laurent Charles Maréchal, carried out in Metz, and bought by Napoleon III, at the Exposition Universelle of 1867. Increased of the figure of the Emperor and the date, it was installed on this site in 1869.

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