 During the 1570s, the Queen offered Jérôme de Gondi a dwelling at Saint-Cloud, the "Hôtel d'Aulnay", which became the nucleus of the Château de Saint-Cloud.Henri III installed himself in this house in order to conduct the siege of Paris during the Wars of Religion, and here he was assassinated by the monk Jacques Clément.After the death of Jérôme de Gondi in 1604, the château was sold in 1618 by his son Jean-Baptiste II de Gondi to Jean de Bueil, comte de Sancerre, who died shortly afterwards.