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The Château de Malmaison ( French pronunciation: [ʃɑto d (ə) malmɛzɔ̃]) is a French château situated near the left bank of the Seine, about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) west of the centre of Paris, in the commune of Rueil-Malmaison . Formerly the residence of Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais, along with the Tuileries it was the headquarters ...
History. Nicolas Flamel, a wealthy member of the Parisian bourgeoisie, commissioned the house after the death of his wife Pernelle in 1397, to accommodate the homeless. [ 2] It was completed in 1407, as is inscribed on a frieze above the ground floor, and it is the best known and sole surviving of Flamel's houses, yet he actually never lived there.
The Maison carrée inspired the neoclassical Église de la Madeleine in Paris, St. Marcellinus Church in Rogalin, Poland, and in the United States the Virginia State Capitol, [3] which was designed by Thomas Jefferson, who had a stucco model made of the Maison carrée while he was minister to France in 1785. [4]
The Maison de Verre ( French for House of Glass) was built from 1928 to 1932 in Paris, France. Constructed in the early modern style of architecture, the house's design emphasized three primary traits: honesty of materials, variable transparency of forms, and juxtaposition of "industrial" materials and fixtures with a more traditional style of ...
Château de Maisons. Coordinates: 48°56′50″N 2°09′14″E. 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 ...
Villa La Roche. Villa La Roche, also Maison La Roche, is a house in Paris, designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret in 1923–1925. It was designed for Raoul La Roche, a Swiss banker from Basel and collector of avant-garde art. Villa La Roche now houses the Fondation Le Corbusier . La Roche commissioned Le Corbusier to build a ...
Established. 1857. Previous owner (s) • Alphonse Fournaise. City. Paris. Country. France. The Maison Fournaise ( French: [mɛzɔ̃ fuʁnɛz]; "House of Fournaise") is a restaurant and museum located on the Île des Impressionnistes, a long island in Seine river in Chatou, west of Paris.
4 route du Champ d'Entraînement, also known as Villa Windsor, is a historic villa in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. It is located within the northwest section of the Bois de Boulogne, close to the southern edge of Neuilly-sur-Seine. [ 1] It was the main residence of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor from 1953 until the Duke's death in ...