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Thirty-two homes that sold for $500,000 or more led home sales for Greater Akron the week of July 29, including one in Bath dubbed a French Country Estate. Chateau-inspired Bath home on 27 acres ...
Château de Maisons, southeast-facing garden front. The Château de Maisons (now Château de Maisons-Laffitte [ʃato də mɛzɔ̃ lafit]), 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.
Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, who had not visited the château since his morganatic marriage with Madame de Montesson, was induced to part with it for 6.000.000 livres. [6] After the sale of the palace was officially finished, Marie Antoinette set about transforming her new private home, which was intended, from 1790 to 1800, to house the ...
The Fortress of Miolans (French: Château de Miolans) is a former fortress prison located in a remote area of Savoy in France.The site, which has been occupied since the fourth century AD, strategically controlled the route across the junction of the Isere and Arc rivers.
Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan at their wedding reception in the garden of the Château de l'Horizon (May 27, 1949). In 1932, Maxine Elliott (1868–1940) built directly on coast of the Golfe-Juan an imposing villa, which the magazine Punch later described as "a white palace set on the water."
The architects of the Square Mile included Robert Findlay, Bruce Price, Sir Andrew Taylor, William Thomas, John Hopkins and the brothers Edward and William Maxwell.The architecture was an eclectic mix of the Neo-classical, Neo-Gothic, Romanesque, Second Empire, Queen Anne and Art Nouveau, though other styles also figured prominently, sometimes within the same home.
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Peyrat-le-Château ( French: [pɛʁˈa l(ə) ʃɑtˈo] ; Occitan : Pairac lo Chasteu ) is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in west-central France .
France, [X] officially the French Republic, [XI] is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world.