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was towards the plain if that wall did not obstruct it but that their Majesties need only give the word that he with his enchanted wand would make that wall disappear; the Queen not knowing told him with a laugh 'Very well I should wish to see it disappear' and in the instant the signal was given and above 200 yards opposite where the company stood fell flat to the ground which surprised them all"
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Mr Belanger had an invention which made a Singulare effect by undermining the wall on the outside and placing people with ropes to pull the wall down at a word.... there was an actor who acted the part of a Magician who asked their Majesties how they liked the Gardens and what a beautiful view there
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The Comte won his bet by completing the house (the only residence ever designed and built expressly for him) in sixty-three days, from September 1777. It is estimated that the project, which came to include manicured gardens, employed eight hundred workers and cost over three million livres.
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Though the Revolutionary sales emptied the house, at Bagatelle in Sir John Murray-Scott's time were replicas of the bronze vases at Versailles. Upon the sale of the house by Sir John Murray-Scott, the vases were sent to his brother's house,
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given on 20 May 1780, described in Blaikie's diary, gives a sense of the extravagant atmosphere. An additional part of the Bois de Boulogne had recently been taken into the prince's grounds, but the wall remained:
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The formal garden spaces surrounding the château, which was linked to its dependencies by tunnels, was expanded with a surrounding park in the naturalistic English landscape style by the Scottish garden-designer
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run by the City of Paris in June of each year. It was first organized in 1907, making it the oldest competition in the world dedicated to this flower.
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on Lord Hertford's death in 1870, as his entailed property and his title passed to a distant cousin. Bagatelle was acquired from his heir,
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wagered against the Comte, her brother-in-law, that the new château could not be completed within three months. The Comte engaged the
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in London. Bagatelle underwent five years of redecorating and extensions, and then Lord Hertford did not reside in it until 1848.
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executed a set of six Italianate landscapes for the bathroom. Most of the furnishings were provided by numerous Parisian
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The central domed feature was a music room. The master bedroom was fitted up in the manner of a military tent, and
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intended for brief stays while hunting in the Bois de Boulogne in a party atmosphere. The French word
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Taha Al-Douri, "The Constitution of Pleasure: François-Joseph Belanger and the Château de Bagatelle"
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For 313,100 francs, having failed to find a purchaser in the preceding years. (H.-G. Duchesne,
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Bélanger's brother-in-law, Jean-Démosthène Dugourc, provided much of the decorative detail.
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there, before the château was restored to the Bourbons. In 1835, it was sold by
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Joseph Baillio, "Hubert Robert's Decorations for the Château de Bagatelle"
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In 1777, a party was thrown in the recently completed house in honour of
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and the Queen. The party featured a new table game featuring a small
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A number of the aviation experiments conducted by pioneer aviator
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There are other châteaux named Bagatelle in France, including the
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and was inherited on his death seven years later by his son, the
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Neoclassical estate in the Bois de Boulogne park of Paris, France
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Buildings and structures in the 16th arrondissement of Paris
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On the entablature of the entrance facade are inscribed the
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This decor was enthusiastically taken up under the Empire.
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Both men were later established in London, working under
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to design the building that remains in the park today.
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Concours international de roses nouvelles de Bagatelle
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property, Bagatelle was left to his illegitimate son
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on an old postcard, flying at the château's grounds
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The Bathing Pool
Hubert Robert
Paris
Neoclassical
château
French formal gardens
orangerie
French landscape style
Bois de Boulogne
16th arrondissement of Paris
Château de Bagatelle
fr
Picardy
Château de Bagatelle
fr
Brittany
maison de plaisance
Italian
hunting lodge
Maréchal d'Estrées
Comte d'Artois
Louis XVI
Prince de Chimay
Marie-Antoinette
Neoclassical
François-Joseph Bélanger
Hubert Robert

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