Château Pastré [SEP] architect
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Château Pastré


houses built in the park between 1845 and 1865: the Château Estrangin, Château Pastré and Château Sanderval. The Parisian architect Jean-Charles Danjoy designed the Château Pastré, the largest of the buildings, completed in 1862. The three-story building was designed to meet the needs of its owners for a place where they could hold entertainments for many people. The "Nouvelle Revue" in its gossip section "Chronique de L'Élégance" in 1884 described a play being presented at the home of Mme Pastre. The chateau is located
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proved unable to adapt to changes in the political situation in Egypt, particularly the crisis of 1875-1880 in which the financial market of Alexandria collapsed. and their affairs were eventually wound down. Between 1836 and 1853 the Pastré family accumulated of land between Pointe Rouge and the Grotte Rolland in the south of Marseille, which they made into a park. The Pastrés had three large houses built there between 1845 and 1865: the Château Estrangin, Château Pastré and Château Sanderval. The well-known architect Jean-Charles Danjoy designed
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Château Pastré


chateau. After the war, Countess Lily contributed to the foundation of the Aix-en-Provence Festival of music and arts. She died in 1974, having spent her entire fortune helping others, much of it during the war. Between 1966 and 1987, the city of Marseille bought almost all of the property, including the Château Pastré, Château Sanderval and the bastide Clary. It had the Château Pastré carefully restored. Since May 1995, it has housed the Faïence Museum, and displays more than 1,500 pieces crafted during
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Eugène Pastré


Eugène Pastré (1806 – 1868) was a French shipowner and merchant, the first owner of the Château Pastré in Marseille, France. Eugène Pastré was the son of the shipowner Jean François Pastré (1758-1821) and his wife Eugénie Sabine Gautier (1776-1862). He was the fourth of five children. A visitor to Alexandria, Egypt in 1833-1834 described Eugène Pastré as one of the two leaders of the European community there. Later his brother Jules Pastré conducted the family business in Alexandria, where
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Jean Pastré


Count Jean André Hubert Pastré (December 2, 1888 – June 29, 1960) was a French polo player. He played polo at the 1924 Summer Olympics. Jean Pastré was born in 1888. He was the son of Count Ange André Pastré (1856-1926) and Clara Goldschmidt (1866-1930). His paternal grandfather, Eugène Pastré, was a French shipowner and merchant, and the first owner of the Château Pastré in Marseille. Pastré became a polo player. In 1913, he played polo as part
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Château de Laversine


The Château de Laversine is a château in Saint-Maximin, Oise, France. The grounds were acquired by Baron Gustave de Rothschild in 1874; a previous castle on the site had been demolished in 1782. Gustave hired Alfred-Philibert Aldrophe, an architect who designed many synagogues in Paris. It was inherited by his son, Robert de Rothschild, in 1912. A polo player, he turned the grounds into a private polo club. For example, in 1913, the Red Devils team (Count Jean Pastré, Captain
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Château Pastré


The Château Pastré, formerly known as the Chateau de Montredon, is a nineteenth-century building in the suburb of Montredon to the south of Marseille, France. Originally the property of a wealthy merchant family, as of 2012 it housed the Faïence pottery museum, the "Musée de la Faïence de Marseille". The grounds of the chateau are a public park. Eugène Pastré (1806–1868) and his wife Céline de Beaulincourt-Marle (1825-1900) belonged to a wealthy family of Marseille shipowners and merchants. Between
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Emmaüs, a Catholic organization for the homeless. In 1918, she married Count Jean Pastré, an aristocrat and polo player who went on to play polo at the 1924 Summer Olympics. She received the title "Countess" via her marriage. They had three children: Nadia, Nicole and Pierre. They resided in Paris and summered at the Château Pastré in Marseille. They divorced in 1940, and she was given the château, keeping her aristocratic title. She died in 1974. After her death, her son Pierre resided
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Château Pastré


, Diane (1888-1971), Jean André and Louis. Jean Pastré was born on 2 December 1888 in Marseille, and inherited the title of "Count". In 1918 he married Louise (Lily) Double. The couple had three children. Jean Pastré played on France's polo team in the 1924 Summer Olympic games. He died in Paris on 29 June 1960 at the age of 71. Their daughter Nadia Pastré helped in the escape lines for Allied prisoners during World War II. Countess Lily Pastré was born
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Eugène Pastré


the Château Pastré, the largest of the buildings, completed in 1862. It is located between the hills and the Mediterranean Sea, with large windows looking out over the park. Around 1850 Eugène Pastré married Céline de Beaulaincourte-Marles Their son Ange André Pastré (1856-1926) was made a Count of Rome. In 1851 the artist Ernest Hébert (1817-1908) made an oil on wood portrait of Céline, Comtesse Eugène Pastré, now held in the Musée Hébert in Paris. The pianist and composer Gustave Péronnet
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Château Pastré


a period spanning more than 7000 years. Marseille has been chosen as the "European cultural capital" for 2013. As part of the preparation for this, the government plans to transfer the Faïence Museum to the Château Borély, which will be adapted for the planned Museum of Decorative Arts and Fashion. The grounds are now a public park commonly known as the "Campagne Pastré." Of this, are formally laid out with lawns, woods and two artificial lakes, while have more natural vegetation. The central avenue from the
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Lily Pastré


Ray's 1929 film set at the Villa Noailles, "Les Mystères du Château de Dé". She also attended the opera festivals in Bayreuth and Salzbourg. In 1940, she established a philanthropic foundation to support the arts known as Pour que l’esprit vive (May the spirit live). In particular, it was meant to support struggling artists. It was headquartered on the Canebiere. During World War II, she sheltered Jewish artists in the Château Pastré, including the harpist Lily Laskine, the pianists Youra Guller and Monique Haas
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Château Pastré


1836 and 1853 the Pastré family accumulated of land between Pointe Rouge and the Grotte Rolland in the south of Marseille, which they made into a park. The natural vegetation would have been scrub, Aleppo pines, oaks, laurel and juniper. Before the Canal de Marseille was constructed to this point, the family had to go to great lengths to obtain water, with which they irrigated and created lawns in the lower levels with gardens of vines, cereals and orchards of almonds, figs and apricot. The Pastrés had three large
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Lily Pastré


Countess Lily Pastré (a.k.a. Marie-Louise Double de Saint-Lambert) (1891-1974) was a French heiress and patron of the arts. She sheltered many Jewish artists in her Château Pastré in Marseille during World War II. After the war, she helped establish the Aix-en-Provence Festival, an annual opera festival in Aix-en-Provence. Marie-Louise Double de Saint-Lambert was born in 1891 at 167 rue Paradis in Marseille. Her father was Paul Double (1868-1935
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Henri-Jacques Espérandieu


of the Palais Longchamp, sited at the water tower where the water arrives from the Canal de Marseille, housing the Museum of Fine Arts and the Natural History Museum. A first plan was submitted by Jean-Charles Danjoy (1806-1862), a celebrated architect who had directed construction of the Château Pastré. In early 1859, the mayor Jean-François Honnorat asked the sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, who had won a competition for a fountain in Bordeaux, to submit a plan for the main monument. Four proposals were
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for the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, replacing Guillaume-Abel Blouet. In 1853 Danjoy was named architect for the diocese of Meaux, Bordeaux and Coutances. This position included maintaining or restoring all aspects of the diocese buildings including the decor, and often the furniture. He decorated the chapel of Saint-Joseph in Bordeaux Cathedral, and undertook major restoration work there. He began plans for the seminary at Coutances, but died before the work could start. Danjoy created the design for the Château Pastré in Marseille, commissioned by
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Château Borély


The Château Borély is a chateau in the southern part of Marseille, France. The chateau was built in the eighteenth century for Louis Borély (1692-1768), a rich merchant of Marseille. It was donated to the city in the nineteenth century. For several years it hosted the archaeological museum. The chateau is located in the current Parc Borély. There are plans to transfer the Faïence Museum "(Musée de la Faïence de Marseille)" from the Château Pastré to the Château Borély, which will also hold the
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Château Pastré


the Chateau de Montredon. She turned it into a refuge for artists fleeing the Nazi regime in occupied France, of whom many were Jewish. Lily Pastré remained on good terms with the authorities, and invited them to concerts that she arranged at the chateau. At the same time, she was sheltering Jewish composers and musicians, of whom perhaps forty stayed at the chateau at different times. Norbert Glanzberg, who played piano for Édith Piaf, was hidden at the chateau at the singer's request. The Spanish cellist Pablo Casals
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Château Pastré


between the hills of Marseilleveyre and the Mediterranean Sea, with large windows looking out over the park. The exterior design is elegant and warm. Jean Danjoy chose to design a reinterpretation of a building from the Louis XIII period. In the facade he blended bricks from Marseille with blonde stone from Arles. These meet in rhythmic curves and counter-curves. Eugène and Céline's son Ange André Pastré (1856-1926) was made a Roman Count. He married Claire Goldschmidt around 1885, and they had four children: Odette
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Château Pastré


Louise Double de Saint Lambert in 1891. Her mother Véra Magnan was partly Russian, and was granddaughter of Bernard Pierre Magnan, a Marshal of France. Her father was Paul Double (1868-1935), son of Léon Double and Marie Prat (1849-1939). Marie Prat was the daughter of Claudius Prat (1814-1859), the co-founder of Noilly Prat. Countess Lily Pastre inherited the Noilly Prat vermouth fortune. After Countess Lily and Jean Pastré divorced in 1940, she continued to live at
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Lily Pastré


by covering the entire costs. She hired Hans Rosbaud as well as a German orchestra, even though it was only three years after the war. She also hired the pianists Clara Haskil and Jean Doyen, the soprano Maria Stader, and the Quartetto Italiano. However, by 1949, she stopped serving on the Board of Trustees of the festival, due to disagreements with the President of the festival, Gabriel Dussurget, who wanted the festival to become more professional. She donated a parcel of land next to her Château Pastré to
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owner Eugène Pastré (1806-1868). The chateau is at the end of a long avenue in the "Campagne Pastré" park, owned by the city of Marseille. Eugène Pastré and his wife Céline de Beaulincourt-Marles wanted to build a house suitable for the celebrations and social gatherings they gave. Around 1860 they assigned construction of the building to the Parisian architect Jean-Charles Danjoy (1806-1862), who had undertaken a first plan at the request of the city of Marseille for the Palais Longchamp,
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Musée de la Faïence de Marseille


The Musée de la Faïence de Marseille is a museum in southern Marseille, France, dedicated to faience, a type of pottery. It opened to the public in June 1995 in the Château Pastré at 157, avenue de Montredon 13008 Marseille. It is planned to transfer the faience museum to the Château Borély, which will also hold the planned Museum of Decorative Arts and Fashion, as part of preparations for Marseille becoming the European cultural capital in 2013. The museum is housed in the magnificent nineteenth century building named after its former
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Pastré (1800-1880), and three brothers: Jean Joseph Pastré (1801-1861), Jean-Baptiste Pastré (1804-1877), and Eugène Pastré (1806–1868). Pastré became in Egypt, where he joined his brother Jean-Baptiste. In 1843, Jules was appointed as one of seven intendent within the Egyptian Health Department to oversee how it was run. In 1865, with Nubar Pasha, he co-founded Eaux du Caire, a water distribution company in Cairo. In the 1850s,
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(1800-1880), and three brothers: Jean Joseph Pastré (1801-1861), Eugène Pastré (1806–1868) and Jules Pastré, Prince d'Edde (1810-1902). Pastré became a prominent businessman and banker in Marseille. He was also an arms-dealer. For example, he sold weapons to the French Army during the Crimean War of 1853-1856. Moreover, in the 1850s, he served on the Boards of Directors of Arnaud Touache et Cie, later known as the Compagnie de navigation mixte
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Jean-Baptiste Pastré


Jean-Baptiste Pastré (10 October 1804 - 19 August 1877) was a French banker and arms-dealer from Marseille. A merchant banker in Egypt, he founded the Anglo-Egyptian Bank in 1862. He also served on the City Council of Marseille. Jean-Baptiste Pastré was born on 10 October 1804 in Marseille. His father, Jean-François Pastré (1758-1821), was a banker. His mother was Marie-Eugénie Gauthier (1776-1862). He had a sister, Amélie Pastré
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Château Pastré


and the American entertainer Josephine Baker both stayed at the chateau for a while, as did the pianist Clara Haskil. On 27 July 1942 Pastre arranged for a performance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the chateau. A young Christian Dior made the costumes from the draperies of the chateau. The Orchèstre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, conducted by Manuel Rosenthal, provided music. The Germans occupied part of the chateau when they took over the south of France. They arrested and killed some of the guests found at the
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of the Red Devils team alongside Captain J. Jaubert, F. Egan, E. Targett in the Laversine Open Polo Cup at the Château de Laversine, Baron Robert de Rothschild's estate near Chantilly. A year later, in 1914, he played as a member of the Quidnuncs team alongside Captain C. G. Higgins, Captain E. D. Miller, and M. F. Mallet at the Cote d'Azur Polo Club in Mandelieu near Cannes. The Duke of Westminster was in attendance. Several years later, in 1922, he played polo in Mons, Belgium
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Jules Pastré


Jules Pastré (April 12, 1809 - May 21, 1899) was a French banker, businessman and equestrian. He was a Board member of the Anglo-Egyptian Bank and co-founder of Eaux du Caire, a water distribution company in Cairo. Jules Pastré was born April 12, 1809, in Marseille. His father, Jean-François Pastré (1758-1821), was a tanner and a shipowner. His mother was Marie-Eugénie Gautier (1776-1862). He had a sister, Amélie
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Robert Seppings


Sir Robert Seppings, FRS (11 December 176725 April 1840) was an English naval architect. Seppings was born to Robert and Lydia Seppings at Fakenham, Norfolk, on 11 December 1767 and baptised three days later. In 1782 he was apprenticed in HMNB Devonport, Plymouth. In 1800, when he had risen to be master shipwright assistant in the yard, he invented a device which greatly reduced the time required to repair the lower portions of ships in dry dock when compared with the laborious process of lifting then in vogue.
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he lived for forty years. In October 1854 Jules gave a brilliant fête with fireworks in honor of the new Khedive, Saïda-Pasha, that was attended by leading dignitaries from Cairo and representatives of European countries. The Pastré family fortune was made and lost in fifty years. After the death of their father, starting in 1825 the five brothers, Jean-Baptiste, Jules, Paul, Eugène and Joseph Pastré, quickly expanded into shipping and trade between Europe and the East, and even into banking. They were involved
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dedicated one of his piano pieces to Mme Pastré, described as the gracious and spiritual chatelaine of the Prado. She was not a pupil of Péronnet, but he had provided direction when she had sung the previous winter before the society of Marseille in the role of Rosine in "The Barber of Seville". The chateau Pastré was designed to accommodate the lifestyle of wealthy people of that time, which would have involved many large social gatherings. The illustrated papers of the time gave breathless descriptions of these events, such as a
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Olivier Pastré


Olivier Pastré (born 1950) is a French banker and economist. He serves as Chairman of IM Bank and as a Professor of Economics at Paris 8 University. Olivier Pastré was born on 15 December 1950 in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris in France. He received a Master of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Rhode Island. He went on to receive a PhD in Economics from the University of Paris, followed by the Agrégation in Economics. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of IM Bank
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, and Messageries Maritimes, both merchant shipping companies. Thanks to his mother's friendship with Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Pastré went to Egypt to do business at the age of nineteen. As a result, he established a financial institution in Egypt as early as 1825. From the 1840s to the 1860s, he was one of the main French merchant bankers investing in Egypt, alongside Delort de Gléon and Edouard Dervieu (1824-1905). In 1862, he founded the Anglo-Egyptian Bank. Back in Marseille, Pastré
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Joachim, 7th Prince Murat


Joachim Murat, 7th Prince Murat (January 16, 1920 in Neuilly, Île-de-France, France – July 20, 1944 in La Gabrière Lingé, Indre), was a member of the Bonaparte-Murat family. He was killed in World War II. On August 18, 1940, he married in Marseille Nicole Véra Claire Hélène Maurice Pastré (1921-1992), the daughter of Countess Lily Pastré, a philanthropist who founded the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 1948, and Count Jean Pastré,
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Jules Pastré


Pastré served on the Board of Directors of a steam-tug company active on the Mahmoudiyah Canal for the first time since the contract between Prussian Baron de Pentz and the Pasha came to an end due to a disagreement. Other Board members included Alexander G. Cassavetti, Ange Adolphe Levi, Alexander Tod, and Moise Valensin. Pastré also served on the Board of Directors of Compagnie Medjidié, a steam shipping company meant to connect all harbours of the Red Sea. The company was founded by Mustapha Bey and co-chaired by Abdallah
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Château du Grand Chavanon


The Château du Grand Chavanon, also known as the Château de Saint-Hubert, is a historic château in Neuvy-sur-Barangeon, Cher, France. The chateau was built for the Marquess of Borzas from 1893 to 1897. It was designed by architect Albert-Félix-Théophile Thomas. It was acquired by the Archbishop of Bourges in 1935, and renovated by architect-monk Paul Bellot from 1935 to 1937. The chateau was acquired by Centrafrican Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa in the 1970s. From 1986 to 1995
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Château de Meudon


Senate), that the architect Jean Chalgrin was able to reuse. After deciding in 1803 to demolish the Château-Vieux, which had been burnt down in 1795, and when he was only Bonaparte, Emperor Napoleon decided in 1807 to make Of the Château-Neuf de Meudon an imperial palace. He then restored the gardens and refurbished the Château-Neuf, notably by the architect Jean-Baptiste Lepère. A wing called the "Economat" was erected on the site of a part of the old chestnut wing that had
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Jacques Androuet II du Cerceau


Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, the younger (1550 – 16 September 1614), was a French architect. He was born in Paris, the son of the eminent French architect and engraver, Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau, and the brother of the architect Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau. He worked at the Château de Charleval in the 1570s and was responsible for military fortifications in Tours in the 1580s. He also worked on the Château de Verneuil-sur-Oise (ruins), the Château de Montceaux (destroyed 1798; ruins
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Constant Roux


-Mihiel. The casting was carried out by Gatti and inauguration took place on 5 June 1922. Roux also completed a bust of the athlete. 9. 'Masks of "Thétis", "Mercure" et "Ceres. These can be seen at the top of the three entrances to the Caisse d'Épargne in Marseille, place Estrangin-Pastré? This is a much decorated building. Built in 1904 and designed by the architect Tournaire, the pediment was sculpted by Henri-Édouard Lombard and Auguste Carli created a bas-
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Sep Ruf


Sep Ruf (full name Franz Joseph Ruf; 9 March 1908, in Munich – 29 July 1982, in Munich) was a German architect and designer, belonging to the Bauhaus group. He was one of the representatives of modern architecture in Germany after World War II. His elegant buildings received high credits in Germany and Europe and his German pavilion of the Expo 58 in Brussels, built together with Egon Eiermann, achieved worldwide recognition. He attended the Interbau 1957 in Berlin-Hansaviertel and was one of the three architects who
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Jean-Charles Danjoy


the shipowner and merchant Eugène Pastré (1806-1868) and his wife, Céline de Beaulincourt-Marle. Completed in 1862, the chateau is now home of the "Musée de la Faïence de Marseille". Danjoy died on 4 September 1862 in Paris. His son Eugène Gustave Édouard Danjoy (1838-1905) was also a successful architect. Édouard was taught by his father and by Charles Questel, then worked under Léon Vaudoyer. In 1845 Danjoy was awarded a gold medal for his restoration work with the Commission of
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Vaux-le-Vicomte


The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte is a baroque French château located in Maincy, near Melun, southeast of Paris in the Seine-et-Marne "département" of France. Built between 1658 to 1661 for Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis de Belle Île, Viscount of Melun and Vaux, the superintendent of finances of Louis XIV, the château was an influential work of architecture in mid-17th-century Europe. At Vaux-le-Vicomte, the architect Louis Le Vau, the landscape architect André le Nôtre, and the
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Château de Sceaux


, who purchased the "domaine" in 1670. The present château, designed to evoke the style of Louis XIII, dates from the Second Empire. Some of Colbert's outbuildings remain, and the bones of the garden layout. The seigneurie of Sceaux appears in 15th century documents, but little remains above ground of the château built for the family Potier de Gesvres in 1597. Colbert turned to some of the premier royal architects and craftsmen to design a seat worthy of his station, the architect brothers Claude and Charles Perrault and
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Château de Maisons


the final completion of the château. A pamphlet with the title "La Mansarade" accuses the architect of having realised, after completing the construction of the first floor, that he had committed an error in the plans and razed everything built so far in order to commence anew. Perrault emphasizes that the architect had the habit of remodeling certain parts of his buildings more than once, in a search for perfection. This length of time the construction required. At the death of René de Longueil, in 1677, the château passed
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Château d'Issy


The Château d'Issy, at Issy-les-Moulineaux, in the Hauts-de-Seine department of France, was a small French Baroque château on the outskirts of Paris. It was destroyed during the Paris Commune of 1871. The small plot of land was bought in 1681 by the "président à mortier" Denis Talon, who commissioned the architect Pierre Bullet, a pupil of François Blondel, to design a small "maison de plaisance". Denis Talon also commissioned the landscape architect André Le Nôtre to construct a collection
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Château d'Hérouville


The Château d'Hérouville is a French château of the 18th century (1740) located in the village of Hérouville, in the Val d'Oise département of France, near Paris. The château was built in 1740 by Gaudot, an architect of the school of Rome, from the remains of an earlier 16th-century château. In the 19th century, it was used as a courier relay station (between Versailles and Beauvais) and stabled a hundred horses. The château was painted by Vincent van Gogh, who is buried nearby. The
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Château de Montgeoffroy


The Château de Montgeoffroy is an 18th-century manor house located in the commune of Mazé (Maine-et-Loire), France. In 1676, Érasme de Contades acquired the property. In 1772, the Marshal Louis Georges Érasme de Contades, governor of Alsace, decided to rebuild the château as a retirement home. He called on the Parisian architect Jean-Benoît-Vincent Barré, who worked with the local architect Simier. The marshal being far from Anjou, the work was directed primarily by his son, le
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Château d'Ancy-le-Franc


is traditionally attributed to the Italian architect Sebastiano Serlio, who had been invited to France by King Francis I. Following Serlio's death in 1554 at Fontainebleau, architect Pierre Lescot, took over the work, respecting the original plans of Serlio. The interior design is the work of Francesco Primaticcio, who was working at château de Fontainebleau at the time. Antoine de Clermont died in 1578 and his grandson Charles-Henri de Clermont, completed the interior. Fully completed, the château was now able to host prestigious guests such as Henry
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Château de Boursault


to vineyards for production of champagne. The "Château de Boursault" brand of champagne continues to be made in the chateau and aged in its cellars. It is the only champagne with the "château" denomination in Marne. The château was built by the architect Jean-Jacques Arveuf-Fransquin (1802–76). It was located on the wooded summit of a hill planted with vines, and dominates the surrounding countryside and the village of Boursault. It was set in a magnificent park covering . The château was designed in a
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Château Rothschild


The Château Rothschild is an historic château in Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris, France. The château was built in 1855 for banker James Mayer de Rothschild. It was designed by architect Joseph-Armand Berthelin. Guests included composer Frédéric Chopin, who composed a sonata at the château, as well as President Adolphe Thiers and Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau. It was inherited by James's son, Edmond James de Rothschild. After Edmond's death in 1934, the Rothschild family no longer lived at the château, even though his daughter,
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Château Laurier


Laurier became one of CN's most important hotels. In addition to hotel guests, the Château Laurier has also served over the years as the home of two important Ottawa institutions. From July 1924 to October 2004, the seventh and eight floors at the top were home to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's local English and French language radio stations. Photographer Yousuf Karsh maintained his studio and residence at the Château Laurier for many years. In 1929, a $6-million east wing addition by Montreal architect John Archibald and CN's architect John
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Château de Chanteloup


the most important of which is the Pagoda, restored in 1910 by architect René Édouard André (son of the landscape architect Édouard François André). The site, the Domaine de Chanteloup, was designated a French "monument historique" in 1937. The château and its gardens were depicted by Louis Nicolas van Blarenberghe in six miniatures (1767, Metropolitan Museum of Art, commissioned by the Duke of Choiseul), which were used to decorate a gold snuffbox. The paintings show the architectural composition as intended by Choiseul and his architect
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Château Miranda


Château Miranda (), also known as Château de Noisy () was a 19th-century neo-Gothic castle in Celles, province of Namur, Belgium, in the region of the Ardennes. As of October 2017, the chateau has been completely demolished. The Château was planned and designed in 1866 by the English architect Edward Milner under commission from the Liedekerke-De Beaufort family, who had left their previous home, Vêves Castle, during the French Revolution. Milner died in 1884 before the Château was finished. Construction
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Château d'Aubiry


The Château d'Aubiry is a château located in Céret (Pyrénées-Orientales), built between 1893 and 1904. Designed by the Danish architect Viggo Dorph-Petersen, the Château d'Aubiry was built for the son of French industrialist Pierre Bardou-Job. It was used as a filming location in 1960 for the movie L'eau a la bouche, has been protected as an official French historical monument since 2006. Although located in Céret, the Château d'Aubiry is nearer to the city limits of Saint-Jean-Pla-de-Corts
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Philibert de l'Orme


, with the exception of changes to the Louvre, which were planned by another royal architect, Pierre Lescot. His major projects included the Château de St Maur-des-Fossés, the Château of Anet, the Château de Chenonceau in the Loire Valley; the royal Château de Madrid in the Bois de Boulogne; the Château de Vincennes, and major modifications to the Palace of Fontainebleau. He also made a reputation as a writer and theorist, and as an innovator in building techniques. He invented a new system for making
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Château de Grégy


The Château de Grègy is a château in Évry-Grégy-sur-Yerre, Seine-et-Marne, France. The first château was built in 1620 by Antoine de Brennes; two towers remain. Antoine de Clairambault rebuilt the central portion at the beginning of the 19th century, and added wings connecting the tower of a former church to the main building. American decorator and architect Ogden Codman, Jr. owned the château in the 20th century, adding its entry pavilions. The chateau is situated along the Yerres River,
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Château de Canisy


commissioned the architect François Gabriel to oversee the renovation. Local stone used on the exterior of the château has a purple hue, which at times appears to change color in the sunlight. The château has parapets and towers which were typical of the architectural design of that era. At one time the château was surrounded by a moat, which has since been filled in. In 1940, German soldiers took over the château and occupied it until August 1944. During that time, Brigitte de Kergorlay, daughter of the heir of the
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Château de Bertangles


The Château de Bertangles, also named Château de Clermont-Tonnerre, is a historic castle in Bertangles, Somme, Hauts-de-France, France. It was built from 1730 to 1734 for Count Louis-Joseph de Clermont-Tonnerre. It was designed by architect Germain Boffrand. The gate, designed by Jean-Baptiste Veyren, was moved here from the Château d'Heilly in 1840. During World War I, the château was the Australian Headquarters under the command of General John Monash. On August 12 1918, Monash
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Château de La Fougeraie


The Château de La Fougeraie, also called the Château Wittouck, is a stately home in Belgium built in 1911 for the industrialist Paul Wittouck. The château is located in Uccle, on the outskirts of Brussels, in the Sonian Forest. The château was built in 1911 for the industrialist Paul Wittouck (1851–1917) by the architect Louis Süe (1875–1968). Paul Huillard (1875–1966) collaborated with Süe on the project. The engineer was L. Bogaerts. Gustave Louis Jaulmes (1873–1959) decorated the interior. During World War II
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Château de Louveciennes


of Marie-Thérèse Louise de Savoie. He died at the château in 1768 of a venereal disease. In 1769, Louis XV offered the château to his new favourite, Madame du Barry. She probably called upon Ange-Jacques Gabriel, Premier Architecte du Roi, to enlarge and redecorate the building. Gabriel added the adjoining eastern wing, as well as the decoration of carved woodwork. Louis XV often visited the château that had become known as the "Château de Madame du Barry". It is there that, 22
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Stern


called for "fashioning" the after part of the ship. This frame is designed to support the various beams that make up the stern. In 1817 the British naval architect Sir Robert Seppings first introduced the concept of the round or "circular" stern. The square stern had been an easy target for enemy cannon, and could not support the weight of heavy stern chase guns. But Seppings' design left the rudder head exposed, and was regarded by many as simply ugly—no American warships were designed with such sterns
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Château de Chaumont


as a "Father of the American Revolution" because he loved America. However, in 1789, the new French Revolutionary Government seized Le Ray's assets, including his beloved Château de Chaumont. Madame de Staël acquired the château in 1810. The comte d'Aramon bought the neglected château in 1833, undertook extensive renovations under the architect Jules Potier de la Morandière of Blois, who was later inspector of the works at the château de Blois; M. d'Aramon installed a museum of medieval arts in the ""Tour de Catherine de Médicis
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Château d'Ambleville


The Château d'Ambleville is a French Renaissance style château located within the regional park of Vexin, in the Val d'Oise Department of France. The chateau is classified as a "monument historique" of France. The gardens are classified among the Notable Gardens of France by the Ministry of Culture of France. The château was built in the 16th century for the seigneurs of Ambleville and Villarceaux by architect Jean Grappin, on the foundations of a medieval castle on the banks of the Aubette. In the 17th century, the house was acquired by
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Château de Montaner


The Château de Montaner is a castle in the "commune" of Montaner in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques "département" of southern France. A castle was built on a motte in the 11th century by the Viscounts of Montaner. It was reconstructed in 1375 by Sicard de Lordat on the orders of Gaston Fébus to protect the frontiers of Béarn with Bigorre and Armagnac. The architect, Sicard de Lordat, was also responsible for the Château de Pau and the Château de Morlanne and is noted for utilising brick in his constructions, its
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Château d'Heilly


The Château d'Heilly is a ruined historic castle in Heilly, Somme, Hauts-de-France, France. The site has been occupied by a castle since the Middle Ages, but the present château was built in the 18th century. It was redesigned by the architect Pierre Contant d'Ivry in 1840. In the same year, the gate was moved to the Château de Bertangles. It was demolished in 1848, and turned into a quarry. The ruins have been listed as an official historical monument by the French Ministry of Culture
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Château de la Muette


clandestine pregnancies soon drove her to her grave. Unable to recover from a difficult delivery, the Duchess expired on 21 July 1719 in the château de la Muette On the Duchesse de Berry's death in 1719, the château passed to the nine-year-old king, Louis XV. Later, however, Louis XV used the château to entertain his mistresses, including the three de Nesle sisters, Madame de Pompadour and Madame du Barry. Louis XV had the château entirely rebuilt by the architects Jacques V Gabriel and Ange-
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Theophilus P. Chandler Jr.


Theophilus Parsons Chandler Jr. (Sep 7, 1845– August 16, 1928) was an American architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He spent his career at Philadelphia, and is best remembered for his churches and country houses. He founded the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania (1890), and served as its first head. Born in Boston on 7 Sep 1845, the son of Theophilus Parsons Chandler and his wife Elizabeth J Schlatter, Chandler was educated at Harvard University and in the atelier of
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Château d'Haroué


The château de Craon, also known as the château d'Haroué or palais d'Haroué is a French château located in a small valley in the centre of the village of Haroué, in the Saintois, in the département of Meurthe-et-Moselle and the région of Lorraine. It was built between 1720 and 1732 by Germain Boffrand during the period when Lorraine was independent of France, for Marc de Beauvau, prince de Craon, viceroy of Tuscany and constable of Lorraine. Surprisingly, the architect had to integrate into his plans the four
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Château de Hautefort


The Château de Hautefort is a French château and gardens located in the town of Hautefort in the Dordogne. The castle originally was a medieval fortress that was reconstructed in the 17th century, and embellished with a jardin à la française. In 1853, the landscape architect, Count of Choulot, redid the gardens, adding a landscape garden, geometric flower gardens, topiary gardens imitating the domes of the château, and a long tunnel of greenery. Next to the formal gardens is a hill with an Italian garden with winding shaded paths
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Eugène Pastré


in the cotton and wheat trade, agricultural and industrial equipment and public works. Eugène specialized in the English end of the business. In an 1851 report the French consul in Egypt reported that the commercial paper of the "Maison Pastré frères" was more valued than that of the major Italian and English houses. From Alexandria the family extended to China, India, the Persian Gulf, Tunisia and West Africa. The fortune proved ephemeral. After the 1860s, after the death of Eugène and two of his brothers, the family
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Château de Petit-Bourg


frequently. Mme de Pompadour saw it while living in Étiolles - before being raised by the royal favour, and dreamed of this splendid residence. After the death of the duc d'Antin, the château remained empty for several years. When acquired by Marie Jacomel in 1750, widow of Louis Chauvelin, "président à mortier" at the Parlement, it was entirely demolished and replaced by a new château built in 1756 in the neoclassical style by the architect Jean-Michel Chevotet. At the time of the Revolution, the château was
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Château de Druyes


included the site of the Château de Druyes. From 1032, the counties of Nevers and Auxerre were under the control of Renaud, the Count of Nevers. Druyes, including the site of the Château de Druyes, became a unique location, where the feudal power that extended over the rest of Auxerre (i.e. the bishop of Auxerre) did not apply. It was not until the late 12th century when the Château de Druyes began to appear in writings, however the architect and the exact date of construction are not known.
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Jean Bullant


Jean Bullant (1515 – 13 October 1578) was a French architect and sculptor who built the tombs of Anne de Montmorency, Grand Connétable of France, Henri II, and Catherine de' Medici. He also worked on the Tuileries, the Louvre, and the Château d'Écouen. Bullant was a Huguenot. On his return in 1537 from a study in Rome, Bullant worked for Montmorency, for whom he transformed the Château d'Écouen about 1550, built the "petit château" at Chantilly, and modernized the Château de Fère-
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Château de Bercy


but modified the plans, filling in the moats, creating gardens, and altering the interior distribution. The château was reworked from 1702 to 1713 by the architect Jacques de La Guépière, who added to the service buildings. Charles-Henri II commissioned sculptors employed on royal buildings to modernize the château's furnishings in 1713-14. The gardens, designed by André Le Nôtre, extended to the banks of the Seine river. They were also known as the "Parc de Bercy". The whole Bercy area around the château
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Buchlovice Castle


the chateau built according to the proposals of Italian architect Domenico Martinelli between 1707 and 1738. The château complex is made up the ceremonial building known as the Dolní zámek (Lower Château), and the building known as Horní zámek (Upper Château), which had a service function. A courtyard of honour extends between the two. Around the château an Italian-style park was created, which was extended and altered in the English style in the first half of the 19th century and is among the most valuable of its kind
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Gabriel Dussurget


In 1945, shortly after the war, he established Les Ballets des Champs-Elysées, a Paris-based ballet company, with Roland Petit and Boris Kochno. A few years later, in 1948, he co-founded the Aix-en-Provence Festival with Countess Lily Pastré and businessman Roger Bigonnet, Director of the casino in Aix. Countess Pastré stepped out of the Board of Trustees in 1949, when Dussurget wanted the festival to become more "professional." Over the years, he hired opera singers Teresa Berganza
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Château de la Petite Malmaison


The Château de la Petite Malmaison is a French château from the 19th century in the town of Rueil-Malmaison in the Hauts-de-Seine department. It was built between 1803 and 1805 for Joséphine de Beauharnais, owner of the neighboring Château de Malmaison. It was a reception pavilion adjacent to a large greenhouse, since destroyed. The large greenhouse of Malmaison was begun in 1804 for the Empress Josephine by the landscape architect Jean-Marie Morel (1728 - 1810) and completed by the end of 1805 according to plans
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Jean Aubert the Elder


commissions, Aubert became the architect to the Bourbon-Condé: for them he worked on the Château de Saint-Maur (1709–10), the Château de Chantilly, and other lesser possessions. Jules Hardouin-Mansart had provided Henri-Jules de Bourbon-Condé plans for the complete transformation of his Château de Chantilly. They were realized by Daniel Gittard, and by Aubert after 1708, though documentation for work other than for the stables is lacking (Kimball p 131). The destruction of these works at the Grand Château
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Château de Champs-sur-Marne


The Château de Champs is a neoclassical château in Champs-sur-Marne, France. It was built in its present form for the treasurer Charles Renouard de la Touane in 1699 by Pierre Bullet, "architecte du roi". After the first proprietor's bankruptcy, another financier, Paul Poisson de Bourvalais, took up the project. Jean-Baptiste Bullet de Chamblain, the son of Pierre Bullet, finished Champs in 1706. Ten years later, Paul Poisson was in the Bastille on charges of embezzlement and the château was
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Silvio Denz


total of 120 hectares. The winery at Château Faugères was designed by the architect Mario Botta. He describes his creation as a "cathedral of wine". Using modern technology coupled with traditional methods, such as gravity-filling, the wines are aged in oak barrels. In 2012 Château Faugères and Château Péby Faugères were awarded the status of Grand Cru Classé of Saint-Emilion. According to the wine critic Robert Parker, Château Péby Faugères today ranks among the finest Bordeaux wines. In 2015 the influential Parker's Wine Buyer
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Château de Monte-Cristo


The Château de Monte-Cristo is a writer's house museum located in the country home of the writer Alexandre Dumas, "père". The château was built in 1846 by the architect Hippolyte Durand in Port-Marly, Yvelines, France. Dumas named it after one of his most successful novels: "The Count of Monte Cristo" ("Le Comte de Monte-Cristo", 1845–1846). Durand also built a writing studio on the grounds, which Dumas named the Château d'If after another setting from the same
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Château de Chenonceau


) to designs by the French Renaissance architect Philibert de l'Orme, and the gallery on the bridge, built from 1570–1576 to designs by Jean Bullant. An architectural mixture of late Gothic and early Renaissance, Château de Chenonceau and its gardens are open to the public. Other than the Royal Palace of Versailles, it is the most visited château in France. The château has been classified as a "Monument historique" since 1840 by the French Ministry of Culture. Today, Chenonceau is a major tourist attraction and in 2007 received around
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Château de Rueil


courtier of Henri IV of France, Jean de Moisset, who added to the château and acquired additional land for the expansion of the gardens. The property was bought in 1633 by Cardinal Richelieu, who had the architect Jacques Lemercier remodel and enlarge the château, as well as the gardens and grounds. The château and grounds were renovated again in 1750 by Philippe Dullin de La Ponneraye. During the reign of Louis-Philippe, the buildings were demolished, and the estate was subdivided. Remnants include three basins (one four-
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Château de la Croë


The Château de la Croë is a large detached villa situated in eight hectares of grounds on the Cap d'Antibes peninsula of the Côte d'Azur, in the Alpes-Maritimes department of southern France. The classical-style château was designed by architect Armand-Albert Rateau and built in 1927 for Sir Pomeroy Burton, general manager of Associated Newspapers. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor leased the château in May 1938, in addition to their Parisian mansion, after the Duke's abdication as King Edward VIII in 1936. The Duchess of Windsor
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Château de Hattonchâtel


site was entirely reconstructed between 1923 and 1928 by Henri Jacquelin, a Norman architect originally from Evreux, in the Neo-Renaissance style. He produced the ultimate "troubadour" château of Lorraine, a pastiche which used some remains from the 11th century building. The work was financed by the American benefactor Belle Skinner. The Château de Hattonchâtel has been listed as a "monument historique" by the French Ministry of Culture since 1986 and is privately owned. The château is run as a hotel, wedding and conference centre. The
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Château de Chanteloup


and additions to the château of Robert de Cotte. For example, this plan shows a theatre wing running east from the southern end of the east lateral wing, which is not seen in numerous later representations of the château. Other features, which were realized in one form or another, included additional courtyards, stables, and service buildings to the west of the château. Six miniature paintings by Louis-Nicolas van Blarenberghe dated 1767, which decorate a gold snuffbox, show the architectural composition as intended by Choiseul and his architect
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Château d'Azay-le-Rideau


included restoring the old medallions and royal insignia on the staircase (which had been covered up during the Revolution), extending the courtyard façade and adding a new tower at the east corner. These developments destroyed the last vestiges of the old medieval fortress and meant that the château at last achieved a finished appearance. For these renovations, he employed the Swiss architect Pierre-Charles Dusillon, who was also working on the neighbouring château of Ussé. During the Franco-Prussian War, the château was once again threatened with destruction.
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Château de Balleroy


The Château de Balleroy is a seventeenth-century château in Balleroy, Normandy. The fief of Balleroy, near the forest and abbey of Cerisy, was acquired on April 1, 1600 by Jean de Choisy, wine supplier at the court of Henry IV. The castle was built from 1626 to 1636 by his son, Jean II de Choisy who became State Councilor and chancellor of the profligate Gaston, Duke of Orléans, brother of Louis XIII who hired architect François Mansart from 1634 for the reconstruction of the château de Blois.
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Château d'Écouen


of the King on the floor above. An additional floor under the roof of the three main wings, lit with light from rows of "lucarnes" or dormer windows. The records of the construction have been lost, so the name of the architect of the building is uncertain, but it is known that the royal architect Jean Bullant participated in the later decoration of the Château, particularly in the construction of ornate peristyles facing the courtyard and the north facade of the building facing the garden. He later designed the Grand Constable
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Château de Louveciennes


chaste love. Both are now conserved in the Louvre Museum. In 1852, the property was expanded to the banks of the Seine, but was divided into two lots. The first, including the château, was acquired by the banker Solomon Goldschmidt, whose heirs had it built upon by the architect Henri Goury, in 1898. The entry was in the Louis XV style, flanking the two houses, located at n° 6 "chemin de la Machine". The same architect also built the stables. The second lot
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Château Trpísty


Château Trpísty ("Schloss Trpist" in German, "Zámek Trpísty" in Czech) is a late baroque 18th century manor house located at Trpísty in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. It was built between 1723 and 1729 for Count Prosper Anton Josef von Sinzendorf on the site of a medieval castle. Because the house archive was lost in late 18th century, the identity of the architect is not clear. Recent research favours the authorship of Jakub Auguston, an architect of Italian descent living in Pilsen (Plzeň in Czech
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Vaux-le-Vicomte


, the estate was sold to Alfred Sommier in a public auction. "He came for the [Charles] Le Brun paintings, especially those on the ceiling of the Chambre des Muses – he loved art," according to descenant Alexandre de Vogüé. The château was empty, some of the outbuildings had fallen into ruin and the gardens were completely overgrown. Restoration and refurbishment began under the direction of the architect Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur, assisted by the landscape architect Elie Lainé. When Sommier died in 1908, the château and
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Château de l'Horizon


château de L'Horizon is "one of the masterworks of Barry Dierks." Here, the architect created an imposing complex of buildings – all standing in perfect harmony with one another – consisting of a main building of four stories, annexes, a private port, and gardens designed by Dierks himself – which was a hallmark of the architect. The property, which is wedged between the "Route du bord de mer" (D 6098) and the coast, extends along the coast. Dierks utilized this topography to design a long
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Chantilly, Oise


. The smaller apartments redone in the 19th century are on the ground floor. The "Château Neuf" was built by architect Honoré Daumet between 1876 and 1882 on the site of the portion of the older building destroyed at the beginning of the 19th century. It contains paint galleries, libraries and the chapel. A gallery, built by architecte Félix Duban in the 1840s, links the two buildings. The château is surrounded by a 115-hectare park which includes 25 hetares of water gardens. The parks includes large formal gardens designed by
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Auguste Lafollye


Joseph-Auguste Lafollye (1828-1891) was a French architect. He is known for his restoration of the Château de Pau and other major public buildings. Joseph-Auguste Lafollye was born in 1828. He studied architecture at the school of architecture in the Académie des Beaux-Arts (Paris) under M. Gilbert, and won the school's second prize in 1855. Lafollye and Gabriel-Auguste Ancelet were the architects for the restoration of the Château de Pau. During the construction of the Villa Eugénie for the Emperor
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Gabriel-Auguste Ancelet


new aisle, sacristy and bell tower. Ancelet was replaced as architect at Pau by Auguste Lafollye in 1864. In 1865 he became the architect of the Château de Compiègne. He married Isabelle Foucher, daughter of Paul Foucher, brother-in-law of Victor Hugo. In 1866, at the request of the Emperor Napoleon III, he began design and construction of a new theater for the Château de Compiègne. Construction of the theater was halted in 1870 because of the Franco-Prussian War. Although he did not see
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Château de Bénouville


The Château de Bénouville is a building in Bénouville, Normandy, near Caen (northern France). It was designed in 1769 by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux and built in 1770-74 and 1776-80 at the request of Hyppolite-François Sanguin, marquis of Livry (1715–1789) and his marquise Thérèse Bonne Gillain de Bénouville, heiress of the property. The interior was under construction from 1778 to 1780 under the direction of Jean-François-Étienne Gilet, the architect of Caen. In 1792, it was purchased from
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Norbert Glanzberg


war. When the farm itself became too dangerous, Piaf asked another friend, Countess Lily Pastré, to hide him at Montredon, her chateau outside of Marseille. Piaf paid her to keep him fed and protected. Countess Pastré was a music lover who had good relations with the authorities, as she often invited them to concerts at the chateau. After the war, it was learned that the countess had sheltered some forty other Jewish composers and musicians from the French police, including Clara Haskil. The Germans eventually invaded that part
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Jules Pastré


Bey. Other Board directors included Messrs. de Dumreicher, Hassan Kamil Bey, Ismail Fevzi Bey, Ange Adolphe Levi, Moukhtar Bey, S. W. Ruyssenaers, Said Effendi, Hugh Thurburn, and N. Zaccali. As a banker, he served on the Board of Directors of the Anglo-Egyptian Bank. Other board members included his brother Jean-Baptiste Pastré, George Gordon Macpherson, Samuel Laing, Edward Masterman, Alfred Devaux, and Giovanni Sinadino. Later, Samuel Laing was replaced by Robert Edmund Morrice. In "Random variables
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