Château de Maisons [SEP] architect
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Maisons-Laffitte


Maisons-Laffitte is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the north-western suburbs of Paris from the center. Maisons-Laffitte is famous for the Château de Maisons-Laffitte, built by architect François Mansart in the 17th century. Maisons-Laffitte is also known for its horse racing track, the Maisons-Laffitte Racecourse, which is why the town is known as the "cité du cheval" and is compared with Newmarket in
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to his heirs until 1732, and then in succession to the marquise de Belleforière, then to the marquis de Soyécourt. In 1777 it became the property of Louis XVI's brother the comte d'Artois, who carried out important interior transformations under the direction of his house architect François-Joseph Bélanger. These works were interrupted in 1782 for lack of funds. Maisons ceased to be kept up. Confiscated during the Revolution as "national goods", the château was sold in 1798 to an army provisioner, M. Lauchère, again in
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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 de Maisons


The Château de Maisons (now Château de Maisons-Laffitte), designed by François Mansart from 1630 to 1651, is a prime example of French baroque architecture and a reference point in the history of French architecture. The château is located in Maisons-Laffitte, a northwestern suburb of Paris, in the department of Yvelines, Île-de-France. The family of Longueil, long associated with the "Parlement de Paris", had been in possession of part of the seigneurie of Maisons since 1460, and a full
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Maisons-Laffitte


the United Kingdom. Originally called Maisons-sur-Seine (meaning "Houses upon Seine"), the commune was officially renamed Maisons-Laffitte in 1882 in honor of banker Jacques Laffitte who financed the housing developments on the estate of the Château de Maisons-Laffitte. The Château de Maisons-Laffitte has a secret passage to what once used to be part of the Château de Maisons-Laffitte but which is now a school - Collège de l'Ermitage. Maisons-Laffitte is served by Maisons-Laffitte station on Paris RER
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Bas-Armagnac


, Cazaubon and Nogaro. The most famous producers of Nogaro : Maison Dartigalongue, Domaine de Joÿ, Château de Laubade, Domaine de Miquer, Domaine de Lassaubatju etc. The most famous producers of Cazaubon : Domaine de Boingnères, Château de Briat, Domaine de Laberdolive, Domaine de Luquet, Domaine d'Espérance, Château Garreau, Château Laballe etc. The most famous producers of Villeneuve-de-Marsan : Maison Darroze, Chateau de Monbel, Château de Lacquy, Château de Maniban, Domaine de Maouhum, Domaine d'Ognoas, Domaine de
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Château de Vendeuvre


The Château de Vendeuvre () is situated in the commune of Vendeuvre, near to Lisieux in Normandy. Classed as a Historic Monument both for its exterior and interior, Vendeuvre is a prototypical aristocratic Norman country house. It was opened to the public in 1983. Vendeuvre was built between 1750 and 1752 from the plans of architect Jacques-François Blondel and is a great example of a country house ("maison de campagne") of the eighteenth century. Its owner, Alexandre Le Forestier, ‘'seigneur’' of
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Château de Maisons


from the Château de Mailly in Picardy. Grommé died in 1900. In his last will, he ordered his whole property to the city of Vyborg, which decided to keep his art collection but sell the château. In 1905, the State purchased the château to save it from demolition. It was classed a "monument historique" in 1914. The Château de Maisons was built between the Seine and the forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, with its garden front oriented to the southeast. Originally it comprised the
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Château de la Mogère


The Château de la Mogère is a mansion near the city of Montpellier in the French region of Occitanie. It is one of many "folies" (country houses) on the outskirts of Montpellier, built by wealthy merchants in the 18th century. In 1706, the grounds of la Mogère were purchased by Fulcran Limouzin, the local "Secrétaire d'État à la Maison du Roi" (one of the types of Secretary of State in France's Ancien Régime). In 1715, architect Jean Giral drew the plan for La Mogère
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Philibert Le Roy


a simple construction. Its walls were of cream coloured stone which framed stuccoed panels. These panels were painted to resemble bricks. The chateau's roof was of blue slate. The colours employed by the architect were no coincidence, but reflected the red, white and blue of the King's livery. In appearance, Le Roy's Chateau de Versailles is not dissimilar from Francois Mansard's designs for the Château de Maisons. A near contemporary of the Versailles chateau, the construction of Maisons is considered a defining moment in French architecture
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. The old château had been the site of the signing of papers that restored the brother of Louis XVI to the throne of France. It was decorated and furnished out of Louis XVIII's pocket, without a trace in the official budget of the "Maison du Roi", and completed by the end of 1822, when Mme de Cayla officially "purchased" it from the architect, 29 October 1822. The King's house-warming gift was a dessert service of Sèvres porcelain painted with views of the new château.
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Jacques Laffitte


of the board of regents of the Bank of France, where Laffitte was then governor, were listed as administrators of the new bank. Laffitte was reaching the peak of his good fortune by 1818. He was sufficiently wealthy by then to be able to purchase the 17th century Château de Maisons (Department of Yvelines),near Paris, designed by the famous architect François Mansart. Before the Revolution, the beautiful château was the property of Louis XVI's brother, the comte d'Artois, who would come to the throne in 1824 as Charles X.
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share since 1602. Beginning in 1630, and for the next decades, René de Longueil, first president of the "Cour des aides" and then "président à mortier" to the Parlement de Paris, devoted the fortune inherited by his wife, Madeleine Boulenc de Crévecœur (who died in 1636), to the construction of a magnificent château. By 1649 he was able to spend the summer months in his new house, but works on the outbuildings continued after that date. Louis XIV visited Maisons in April 1651.
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Jacques Sarazin


in the Ile-de-France, notably Maisons-Lafitte. Sarazin also organized a large atelier to provide interior and exterior sculptures for the Château de Maisons (1642-60) , for Claude de Bullion at the Château de Wideville and in other private commissions. His primary assistants were Gilles Guérin, Philippe de Buyster and Gérard van Opstal, all of whom in turn became prominent Baroque sculptors. In 1648 he became a founding member of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, and became Director in 1655. He bagan
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Château du Grand Jardin


The Château du Grand Jardin was a "maison de plaisance" attached to the seat at Joinville, Haute-Marne of Claude de Lorraine, duc de Guise, who built it between 1533 and 1546 as a grand pavilion designed for fêtes and entertainments. The "Château d'en-bas" (the "Lower Château") as it was called at first, formed an annex to the medieval "château fort" overlooking Joinville, a stronghold of the House of Guise that was demolished at the French Revolution. In addition to
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Revenge of the Musketeers


, wryly notes, "Heroic, but absurd ..." "Revenge of the Musketeers" was filmed on location at the Château de Biron in Biron, Dordogne in southwestern France, the Château de Maisons in Maisons-Laffitte in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, and in Portugal. Sophie Marceau did her own fencing on screen. "Revenge of the Musketeers" was released in France on 24 August 1994. "Revenge of the Musketeers" received mixed reviews. The AllMovie website gave the film two out of five stars. In
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Château de Bagatelle


The Château de Bagatelle is a small neoclassical château with several small formal French gardens, a rose garden, and an orangerie. It is set on 59 acres of gardens in French landscape style in the Bois de Boulogne, which is located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. There is also a located near Abbeville in northern France. The château is a glorified playground, actually a "maison de plaisance" intended for brief stays while hunting in the Bois de Boulogne in a party atmosphere. The French word "bagatelle",
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Maison royale de Saint-Louis


house the Lycée militaire de Saint-Cyr. Even in the lifetime of Madame de Maintenon, many establishments were set up or transformed on the model of the Maison, generally by the Maison's former students. In 1705 one of those students, Madame de la Viefville or Viesville, aged only 28, became abbess of the Bernardine convent at Gomerfontaine, in the diocese of Beauvais, near Trie (present day Trie-Château). She had joined a convent at Argensol on leaving the Maison and the first thing she did
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Maisons-Laffitte Racecourse


The Hippodrome de Maisons-Laffitte at 1 avenue de la Pelouse in the northwestern Parisian suburb of Maisons-Laffitte in France is a turf horse racing facility and track for Thoroughbred flat racing. Opened in 1878 by Joseph Oller, inventor of the pari-mutuel machine, it sits on 92 hectares that belonged to the wealthy banker Jacques Laffitte. The nearby Château de Maisons-Laffitte is home to The Museum of the Racehorse. Open from early March through to the end of November, currently the major annual Conditions races at Hippodrome
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René de Longueil


René de Longueil, marquis (1658) de Maisons (1596–1677), "le président de Maisons", was Surintendant des Finances under Louis XIII. He built the Château de Maisons. He was born to a family of Parisian "parlementaires" of long standing. He was councilor to the Parlement's Grand Conseil in 1618, then Premier Président de la Cour des aides in 1620. On 22 May 1622, he married Madeleine Boulenc de Crévecoeur (1609-1636) daughter of a rich magistrate of the "Chambre des
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Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur


, the former "Maison des orphelines de la Légion d'honneur" of the "Hôtel de Corberon" in Paris, which had become an "annex" of the school of Saint-Denis in 1821, was moved to the Château d'Écouen by Napoleon III. In 1962, the Grand Chancellor of the Légion d'honneur closed the school of Écouen and gave the castle to the Ministry of Culture, to make it the National Museum of the Renaissance. Inaugurated on July 1, 1811, the Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur of Saint
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Château de Bagnolet, Paris


The Château de Bagnolet was a château situated in the Paris suburb of Bagnolet, France, 5.2 km from the center of the capital. The property was part of the "biens de la Maison d'Orléans", private property of the House of Orléans from 1719 till 1769. The original château was constructed in the 17th century by Marie de Bourbon, Countess of Soissons and Princess of Carignano after her marriage to Prince Thomas Francis of Savoy. At her death in 1692, aged 86, the property was acquired by the "fermier
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Centre de l'Imaginaire Arthurien


Centre de l'Imaginaire Arthurien is open to the public at the château de Comper from the beginning of March to the end of November. Since the end of 2012 Ls Petite Maison des Légendes is open to the public during the winter months when the Château is closed. Both are situated in the Commune of Concoret (Morbihan, Brittany). Since 2009, the Centre has taken part in event outside Brittany every year (Médiévales de Provins, Printemps des Légendes...). The Centre de l’Imaginaire Arthurien has lodged at the Château since
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Château de Landreville


The Château de Landreville is a castle situated in the "commune" of Bayonville in the Ardennes "département" of France. Within the territory of a 12th-century "châtelain", the castle was built in the early 13th century and remodelled in the middle of the 16th century. The Château de Landreville, situated in the Argonne Ardennaise region, is a rectangular "maison forte" (strong house) flanked by four cylindrical towers with 'pepper-pot' roofs, surrounded by water-filled moats, with a
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Château des jacques


Château des Jacques is a wine producer located in , in the north of the Beaujolais region. The 88 hectares of vineyards are spread over six appellations located in Moulin-à-Vent, Morgon, Chénas and Fleurie. Vineyards included in the domaine's holdings include: Grand Clos de Rochegrès, Clos du Grand Carquelin, Champ de Cour, La Roche, Clos des Thorins, La Rochelle and Côte du Py. Since 1996, Château des Jacques has been owned by Maison Louis Jadot, one of the early-stage investors
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Château de la Guignardière


proposed central bay of the garden facade, to the actual central bay. From 1920, the statesman Georges Clemenceau rented a house, known as "la bicoque", ("the shack") on the estate. He became friends with the owner, Amedée Luce de Tremont, and was regularly entertained in the dining room of the château. "La bicoque" is now a state property, and is open to the public as the "Maison de Georges Clemenceau". The château remains privately owned, and is now
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Château de Maisons


The attribution to François Mansart was common knowledge among contemporaries. Charles Perrault reported its reputation: "The château of Maisons, of which he [Mansart] had made all the buildings and all the gardens, is of such a singular beauty that there is not a curious foreigner who does not go there to see it, as one of the finest things that we have in France." Nevertheless, the sole surviving document mentioning Mansart's name is a payment of 20,000 "livres" from Longueil in 1657, apparently occasioned by
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Château Filhot


Château Filhot, archaically named Maison Noble de Verdoulet, is a winery rated "Deuxième cru classé" (French, “Second Growth”) in the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855, from the Sauternes appellation in Gironde. Considered by some unjustly omitted from the "Premier cru" classification, Filhot produces a drier wine than Château d'Yquem, with an unusually high alcohol content for a Sauternes. The vineyard dating from the 1630s, the château was founded by Romain de Filhot in 1709. Following the French revolution, the estate
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Jacques Laffitte


managed to protect the Château de Maisons from sale, but he divided up its extensive parklands into lots for building country villas to sell to rich Parisians. This actually became a remarkably creative early experiment in suburban real estate development, as described in a brochure prepared by M. de Rouvières entitled "Histoire et description pittoresque de Maisons-Laffitte " (1838). Laffitte and his brother, Jean-Baptiste Laffitte, established a stage coach line for the 15 kilometer trip from Paris to Maisons. His nephew, Charles Laffitte (1803
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Château de Modave


buildings of François Mansart. The dignified symmetry with a triangular pediment accenting the main frontage, the geometrical articulation of the wall, the mansard roofs, and the spatial contrast between the corps de logis and the side wings have much in common with Mansart's country houses, such as the Château de Maisons-Laffitte. Modave is the most prominent preserved example of High Baroque country-house architecture in the Southern Netherlands and the Prince-Bishopric of Liège. The château is unique for its splendidly preserved historic interiors and furniture dating from
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Château de Rastignac


destroy the Château de Rastignac in retribution against the French Resistance. Using phosphorus as an accelerant, the fire burned for five days. Only the exterior limestone shell survived. After eight years the structure was stabilized and a roof placed overhead for protection. The semi-circular Ionic portico of the Château de Rastignac is frequently compared with Maison carrée d'Arlac and the South Portico of the White House, and there have been speculations about the possible influences of one house on the other. The first official White House guide, published in 1962
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La Maison de la Magie Robert-Houdin


La Maison de la Magie Robert-Houdin (French for "The Robert-Houdin House of Magic") is a museum which faces the Royal Château de Blois. It is located in the Loir-et-Cher "département" in the Loire Valley, in France, in the center of the city of Blois. As a museum of France and bearing the official label of "Musée de France", it is the only public museum in Europe which incorporates in one place collections of magic and a site for permanent
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Château d'Asnières


reorganising it—these were built to designs by Mansart de Sagonne between 1752 and 1755 as a large stone-vaulted building where horses could be dressed before being sent back to the other royal studs. Their site was to the right of the present-day bridge in Asnières. They were linked to the château by a vast avenue flanked on both sides by triple rows of trees—de Sagonne had exploited a motif employed by his great-great-great-uncle François Mansart at Maisons-Laffitte. Beside the château,
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Château de Bois-Briand


was (still is) facing South. The medieval castle became a "château" when it was sold by Charette family to Le Meneust des Treilles family, in 1699. The medieval defensive "castle" transformed itself into a "maison de plaisance" where pleasure was associated to economic productions (wine and dry fruits for sailors). Such "châteaux", designed for pleasure were named "Folies" in "Pays de Nantes". In other parts of France, the term "Folies" was used mainly to designate
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right, called the "Appartement de la Renommée" was entirely redecorated by Bélanger for the comte d'Artois in a discreet neoclassical style quite in keeping with the general classic style of the château. The staircase was of a type that Mansart originated at Balleroy, in which the central space is left open, so that the flights climb the four walls. On the parade floor, the apartment to the right, called the "Appartement des Aigles" for the Empire style decoration effected by maréchal Lannes in expectation of the visit of Napoleon
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Centre de l'Imaginaire Arthurien


etc.). The Château is the starting point for guided visits to the forest. Different events (storytelling, lectures, craft fairs, book signings etc.) are organised there on specific dates: the Pentecôte du Roi Arthur, the Rencontres de l'imaginaire de Brocéliande and the Semaine du Dragon, among others. The Château is itself associated with a legend of the faery Viviane which is often told to interested visiters. La Petite Maison des Légendes opened at the end of November 2012. It includes a permanent bookshop and hosts
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Château de Commarin


The Château de Commarin in the "commune" of Commarin in the Côte-d'Or "département", Burgundy, France, has passed through 26 generations in the same family; never sold, though it has often passed through heiresses, Commarin today is a seat of the comte de Vogüé. It has been classed a "Monument Historique" since 1949. Though the site probably has its origins in a Gallo-Roman villa, Commarin is first mentioned, as a "maison forte", in a document of 1214.
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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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Maison royale de Saint-Louis


was moved to Noisy-le-Roi, with help from the king, who offered the Château de Noisy, acquiring it and fitting it out to house more than 180 'pensionnaires'. On 15 August 1684, in Grand Conseil, Louis XIV decreed the founding of The "domaine" of Saint-Cyr was assigned to the Maison in 1685, and the king ordered major building work on the domaine next to Versailles, led by Jules Hardouin Mansart. The project cost the king 1,400,000 livres. Hardouin-Mansart's
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Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur


Écouen prepared to commercial and teaching careers, while Saint-Denis prepared to superior studies. In 1920, the Maisons d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur started following the same curriculum as the French "lycées". The youngest girls studied in "Les Loges", the older ones in Écouen and the oldest ones in Saint-Denis. It is still the same nowadays : "Les Loges" follows the curriculum of "collège" while Saint-Denis is a "lycée". The "Château d'Écouen" was the place where
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Cour des Senteurs


Versailles Architect: For the initial plan of "Maison des Parfums", an exhibition space of the perfume history, Philippe Pumain, architect and museographer, in collaboration with Elisabeth de Feydeau (), historian of perfume. (Maison des Parfums was replaced by a food service space in 2018.) The buildings surrounding the court have been modified for receiving visitors. ""The over-hanged structure of the display window has been modified, because here we don’t have enough pedestrian area in la rue de Chancellerie, although
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Château de Maisons


1804 to maréchal Jean Lannes, and finally in 1818, to the Parisian banker Jacques Lafitte. Starting in 1834, Lafitte proceeded to develop the surrounding park as building lots; he tore down the fine stables to furnish construction materials for the purchasers. After his daughter the princesse de la Moskowa sold the château in 1850, it passed to M. Thomas de Colmar, and to the painter , who farmed out the small park and demolished the entrance gateway to the forecourt, enclosing the severely reduced space with a wrought iron grille brought
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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 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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François-Joseph Bélanger


famous patron of that time. For him Bélanger designed and constructed the party pavilion Château de Bagatelle in the Bois de Boulogne, 1777, winning his patron's bet with the Queen by completing the house in sixty-three days (and nights) and introducing décors in the "style Étrusque". Bélanger constructed the Folie Saint James, a French landscape garden, in Neuilly from 1777 to 1780, and worked for the comte d'Artois at the Château of Maisons-Lafitte. During the Revolution he spent some time in the prison
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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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Maison européenne de la photographie


The Maison Européenne de la Photographie (or MEP), located in the historic heart of Paris, is a major center for contemporary photographic art which opened in February 1996. The Hotel Henault de Cantobre, which was built in 1706, houses the Maison Européenne de la Photographie and is located at n. 5, Rue de Fourcy. It belongs to the City of Paris since 1914. The city authorities asked the Yves Lion firm of architects to undertake the restoration of the original building, as well as the addition of a new
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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 de Muzot


Château de Muzot (also known as Maison Muzot or Muzot Castle) is a 13th-century fortified manor house located near Veyras in Switzerland's Rhone Valley. In 1921, it was purchased by Swiss merchant and arts patron Werner Reinhart who then invited Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) to live there rent-free. It was at Muzot, during a few weeks in February 1922, that Rilke after a long silence caused by severe depression finally completed the "Duino Elegies" and wrote the entire
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History of early modern period domes


also have this layout. Bernini's Sant'Andrea al Quirinale is known as the oval Pantheon. Oval domes can also be found in secular buildings such as the Château de Maisons (1642–6), the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (1657), and the Amalienburg pavilion at Schloss Nymphenburg, Munich. Borromini's masterpiece is the dome of Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza (1642–50), built for Pope Urban at a University in Rome. The ribbed dome has a unique and complex geometry with a large window in each of it six
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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 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'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 Grâne


the village, as well as agricultural lands and a fortified house ("maison fort"), was created at the start of the 16th century by Bertrand Rabot, a Noble of the Robe. During the Wars of Religion (1562–98), the castle and particularly the "maison fort" were badly damaged. The Rabots returned in 1644 and renovated the buildings In 1792, Duchesne, a lawyer from Grenoble, bought the castle and estate. He was later a delegate under the Directory and president of the Tribunat under the
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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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Maison de l'Art Nouveau


The Maison de l'Art Nouveau ("House of New Art"), abbreviated often as L'Art Nouveau, and known also as Maison Bing for the owner, was a gallery opened on 26 December 1895, by Siegfried Bing at 22 rue de Provence, Paris. The building was designed by the architect Louis Bonnier (1856–1946). Unlike his earlier stores at the same location and nearby at 19 rue Chauchat that specialised in Japonism and imports from Asia, the gallery specialised in modern art. The original exhibition featured windows designed by
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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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La Maison Rouge


La Maison Rouge was a private contemporary art Foundation dedicated mainly to showing private art collections, monographic shows of contemporary artists' work. It was located close to the Bastille, in Paris, at 10 Boulevard de la Bastille in the 12th arrondissement of Paris.. La Maison Rouge has been definitely closed in October 2018. Created in 2004 by Contemporary Art Collector Antoine de Galbert, La maison rouge occupied an old factory building. The 2000-square-meter space was renovated by architect Jean-Yves Clément and the artist Jean-Michel Alberola
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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 Bercy


The Château de Bercy was a Louis XIII château located in Bercy, a part of modern-day Charenton-le-Pont in Paris, France. The château was constructed beginning in 1658 for Charles-Henri I de Malon de Bercy by architect François Le Vau, Louis Le Vau's younger brother. It was unfinished upon the death of the younger Le Vau in 1676. Malon de Bercy's son and heir, Charles-Henri II de Malon de Bercy (1678–1742), superintendent of finances, finished its construction,
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House of Rougé


Saint-Pierre-Montlimart, La Frébaudière, Langeron, Le May, Montfaucon, Vienne-le-Château, Cholet, Chemillé, Le Tremblay, La Cour de La Raye, Rostrenen, Kerjean, Hervillé, Moyencourt, Hardecourt-aux-bois, La Maison-Rouge, etc. Bois-Dauphin à Précigné, Sablé-sur-Sarthe, Moreuil, Guyencourt-sur-Noye, Villers-aux-Érables, Coetmen, in Tréméven, Tonquédec, Baronville, Dinteville, La Maison-Rouge, Mesnil-
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Revenge of the Musketeers


Château de Maisons in Maisons-Laffitte in France and in Portugal with a budget of $9.1 million. "Revenge of the Musketeers" was released in France on 24 August 1994, and received mixed reviews, with some reviewers applauding the film's production values, cinematography, and playful swashbuckler style and other reviewers complaining about the film's pacing. Sophie Marceau was singled out by one reviewer who felt she was "delightful in the lead, demonstrating a playful coquettishness and a mastery of the blade." Marceau did her own
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French architecture


a monumental three-storey gateway. Probably the most accomplished formulator of the new manner was François Mansart, credited with introducing the full Baroque to France. In his design for Château de Maisons (1642), Mansart succeeded in reconciling academic and baroque approaches, while demonstrating respect for the gothic-inherited idiosyncrasies of the French tradition. Maisons-Laffitte illustrates the ongoing transition from the post-medieval chateaux of the 16th century to the villa-like country houses of the eighteenth. The structure is strictly symmetrical, with an order
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French Baroque architecture


and functionality of the interior space. One of the most accomplished formulators of the new style was François Mansart, a tireless perfectionist often credited with introducing the full Baroque to France. He was not the first to use the sloping Mansart roof, but he used it so effectively that it took his name. In his design for the Château de Maisons in Maisons-Laffitte, (1630–51), Mansart showed the continuity between the French Renaissance style and the new style. The structure is strictly symmetrical, with an order applied to
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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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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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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 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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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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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 de Petit-Bourg


, Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan acquired the Château de Petit-Bourg. There, she realized important alteration work and charged André Le Nôtre with designing the gardens "à la françaises", and staged in terraces. She took refuge there after her disgrace. With her death in 1707, her son Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin, inherited the château and remade the gardens. Between 1716 and 1722, he undertook to entirely rebuild with the architect Pierre Cailleteau dit Lassurance. The new Château de Petit-Bourg was
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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 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 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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Pauillac


wines in Bordeaux. The Tourist Office and Wine House (French: Maison du Tourisme et du Vin) is a very informative resource for all things wine related in the area. There are wine tastings, video screenings, wine sales and seminars. Some castles offer art exhibitions (Château Pédesclaux for example) or a museum (Mouton Rothschild castle and its museum of wine in Art). The Village de Bages, a small renovated village next to the Château Lynch-Bages, is dedicated to the wines and tastes of the
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Château de Maisons


architecture whose monumental character gave a preview of those that would be built at Versailles and Chantilly. Of these works there exists only a grotto, that served also to water the horses. The château stood on a rectangular platform outlined in the French manner with a dry moat. The "cour d'honneur" was defined by terraces. The central block extends symmetrically into short wings, composed of several sections, each with its own roofline, with raked roofs and tall chimney stacks, in several ranges, with a broken façade reminiscent 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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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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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 de Bourmont


own it. In 1771, the Château de Bourmont was the birthplace of Louis-Auguste-Victor, Count de Ghaisnes de Bourmont, architect of the French conquest of Algeria in 1830. The conquest led to him being appointed Maréchal de France (Marshal of France). In 1795, during the Chouannerie, vicomte de Scépaux established his headquarters there. There are remains of an important defensive military structure from the Middle Ages. The château was extended with the construction of buildings from the 16th century to the end of the 19th
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H. Eugene Leigh


. Bred to Belmont's Rock Sand, Merry Token produced Mahubah who became the dam of the legendary Man O'War. Eugene Leigh began racing in France where he rented a château near the Maisons-Laffitte Racecourse. There, he managed a stable of more than two hundred horses that was the most modern of its time. Credited with improving the wellbeing of his horses, Leigh was responsible for introducing lightweight horseshoes into French racing. Dubbed by French racing fans as ""le sorcier de Maisons-Laffitte"" (the Wizard
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Château de Maisons


the planning in work of Pierre Lescot and Philibert Delorme in the preceding century. The single pile construction typical of its epoch carries three storeys, a basement supporting a ground floor and "piano nobile" with three attic floors above. The grand central entrance vestibule of stone was originally enclosed by exceptionally fine wrought iron grilles, which are today at the Louvre. Large bas-reliefs of The Seasons were executed by Gilles Guérin after drawings provided by Jacques Sarazin, who oversaw all the sculpture provided for Maisons. There are lunettes representing
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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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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes


The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes () is the fine arts museum of Nîmes. It was founded in 1821 and originally housed in the Maison Carrée. Since 1907 it has been housed in a building designed by the architect Max Raphel in Square de la Mandragore on rue de la Cité Foulc. The Maison Carrée soon became too small and an architectural competition was organised in 1902 for a new building. This was won by Max Raphel and work began in 1903, being completed in 1907. It was renovated by the
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Pierre Le Muet


; destroyed 1814) for Claude Bouthillier; and the Château de Tanlay (1642–1645) for Michel Particelli d'Emery. At Tanlay he completed the part of the château begun in the 16th century in its original style, but added a vestibule-atrium in a more contemporary taste. The additional designs in the 1647 edition of "Maniere" also show Le Muet the builder of three Parisian residences, the maison Tubeuf, and the hôtels Coquet and d’Avaux (1644–50). The engraver Marot worked from drawings furnished by Le Muet which corrected
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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 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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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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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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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 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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Hippolyte Destailleur


in 19th century England, where he designed Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild (1874–1882) and the Imperial Mausoleum at Saint Michael's Abbey in Farnborough, Hampshire. He oversaw the designwork and restoration of the Château de Courances and Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte beginning in 1875. He designed the Hôtel de Béhague in Paris (1866-1867) and the Château de Franconville in Oise for the Duc de Massa (1880-1885). His son Walter-André Destailleur was also an architect, who
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Marquess of Trazegnies d'Ittre


The Marquess of Trazegnies d'Ittre ("Markies van Trazegnies" or "marquis de Trazegnies") is a member of the Belgian nobility. The title has been held for centuries by the noble house of Trazegnies ("Maison de Trazegnies"). They hold private residence in the Castle of Corroy-le-Château. The house of Trazegnies is divided into two families: "de Trazegnies" and "de Trazegnies d'Itrre". The first recorded lord of the house was Giles I of Trazegnies (1134–1161). The title
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Nicolas Ribonnier


the probable architect of this new castle. The sculptors used to make the castle, were probably Italian sculptors who had been called by the cardinal de Givry. After the construction of the Château du Pailly, Gaspard de Saulx asked Ribonnier in 1573 for plans to rebuild the Château de Sully. Gaspard du Saulx died shortly after designing the plans with his architect. They were executed by his wife, Françoise de La Baume-Montrevel. According to , viscount of Tavannes, the castle was finished in 1620, but only the main
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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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