The Château de Champs, at Champs-sur-Marne was built in its present form for the treasurer Charles Renouard de la Touane in 1699 by Pierre Bullet, architecte du roi.
Chardin and Renouard, which induced the Convention to protect books adorned with the coats of arms of their former owners and other treasures from destruction at the hands of the revolutionists.
In 1659, Renouard de Villayer became a member of the Académie française, succeeding Abel Servien.
Jean-Pierre Nicolas Renouard was freed by British troops from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on the 15th of April 1945.23 After a long recovery, he left for the United States and studied at the School of Business Administration of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.