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The Duke and Duchess both died at the house, in 1972 and 1986 respectively. While the villa served as their main residence, the Windsors also owned a country house (Moulin de la Tuilerie), where they spent most weekends and summer holidays. [3] That property is located in Gif-sur-Yvette, southwest of Paris.
The Marais was then an especially fashionable area for the high nobility ; the construction of the Hôtel de Sully fits in a larger movement of monumental building in this part of Paris. [ 3 ] Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully , and former Superintendent of Finances to King Henri IV , purchased the hôtel , completed and fully furnished, on ...
Joséphine de Beauharnais bought the manor house in April 1799 for herself and her husband, General Napoléon Bonaparte, the future Napoléon I of France, at that time away fighting the Egyptian Campaign. Malmaison was a run-down estate, seven miles (12 km) west of central Paris that encompassed nearly 150 acres (0.61 km 2) of woods and meadows.
Although the design results in a slight imbalance in the natural disposition of the mansion, it respects the placement of a central pavilion with three panels surmounted by a broken pediment bearing the arms of the owners. Salon rouge. Its rich interiors made the Hôtel Matignon one of the most elegant and most frequented mansions of Paris.
The house, on an irregular site at the tip of the Île Saint-Louis in the heart of Paris, was designed by architect Louis Le Vau. [1] It was built between 1640 and 1644, originally for the financier Jean-Baptiste Lambert (d. 1644) and continued by his younger brother Nicolas Lambert, later president of the Chambre des Comptes.
Villa Savoye (French pronunciation:) is a modernist villa and gatelodge in Poissy, on the outskirts of Paris, France.It was designed by the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, and built between 1928 and 1931 using reinforced concrete.
The Hôtel de Sens (French pronunciation: [otɛl də sɑ̃s]) or Hôtel des archevêques de Sens is a 16th-century hôtel particulier, or private mansion, in the Marais, in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France. It nowadays houses the Forney art library.
The Hôtel de Lassay (French pronunciation: [otɛl də lasɛ]) is a private mansion located on the rue de l'Université, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France. It is the current residence of the President of the National Assembly, [1] and adjoins the Palais Bourbon, the seat of the lower house of Parliament.