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Villa La Leopolda in its current incarnation was designed and built from 1929 to 1931 by the American architect, Ogden Codman, Jr., on an estate once owned by King Leopold II of Belgium. Leopold had made the previous estate a present for his mistress Blanche Zélia Joséphine Delacroix , also known as Caroline Lacroix, and it derives its name ...
Leopold spent vast sums of money on gifts and estates for his young mistress, presenting for instance the Villa Leopolda to Caroline in 1902. She frequently traveled to Paris to visit her dress- and hat-maker, once bragging that she spent three million francs on dresses at a single store on one occasion. [12]
Villefranche-sur-Mer (US: / ˌ v iː l (ə) ˈ f r ɒ̃ ʃ s ʊər ˈ m ɛər /, [3] French: [vilfʁɑ̃ʃ syʁ mɛʁ]; Occitan: Vilafranca de Mar [ˌvilɔˈfʀaŋkɔ de ˈmaʀ]; Italian: Villafranca Marittima [ˌvillaˈfraŋka maˈrittima]) is a resort town in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region on the French Riviera and is located south-west of the ...
Villa Leopolda — $750 Million. A mansion on the French Riviera named Villa Leopolda holds the title of second-most expensive private residence. The building served as a hospital during World War ...
3. Villa Leopolda — $506 Million. A mansion on the French Riveria named Villa Leopolda holds the title of second-most expensive private residence. The building served as a a hospital during ...
In 1920, Codman left New York to return to France, where he spent the last thirty-one years of his life at the Château de Grégy, wintering at Villa Leopolda in Villefranche-sur-Mer, which he created by assembling a number of vernacular structures and their sites: it is his masterpiece, the fullest surviving expression of his esthetic.
Wikipedians in France may be able to help! According to the August 21, 2008 International Herald Tribune, Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov denies being the buyer of Villa Leopolda and insists that he will have nothing more to do with France until he receives an apology for a 2007 "prostitution-related raid on his chalet in Courchevel."
Pages in category "Villas in France" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Villa Cavrois;