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jadean
Duc/Duchesse
Joined: Mon May 28, 2007 8:21 pm Posts: 154 Location: Canada
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 Re: Chateau Saint-Cloud
We'll remind you Comte. I haven't seen photos of Saint Cloud before, only water colors.
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Mon Aug 04, 2008 1:00 pm |
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Comte de Provence
Prince/Princesse
Joined: Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:00 pm Posts: 2161 Location: France
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 Re: Chateau Saint-Cloud
A model, and some interior photo's of the queens room(: MA's room!   
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Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:59 pm |
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Délicate fleur
Royalty
Joined: Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:35 am Posts: 1064 Location: Australia
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 Re: Chateau Saint-Cloud
Lovely! It's remarkably well preserved, are all the items there authentic from her time? And do you know who the portrait of the little boy in the last photo is?
_________________ “Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.” - Germaine de Staël
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Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:09 am |
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Comte de Provence
Prince/Princesse
Joined: Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:00 pm Posts: 2161 Location: France
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 Re: Chateau Saint-Cloud
A child of EMpress Hortense or Empress Eugenie...
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Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:32 am |
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Délicate fleur
Royalty
Joined: Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:35 am Posts: 1064 Location: Australia
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 Re: Chateau Saint-Cloud
I was wondering, just before the establishment of the First Empire, who lived in Fontainebleu? I remember reading in a [fictional] book that it was a relation of Josephine? 
_________________ “Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.” - Germaine de Staël
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Tue Aug 05, 2008 3:09 am |
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jadean
Duc/Duchesse
Joined: Mon May 28, 2007 8:21 pm Posts: 154 Location: Canada
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Thanks Comte, those pictures are lovely. The model is incredible. Saint-Cloud was a beautiful chateau.
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Tue Aug 05, 2008 2:12 pm |
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Elle
Prince/Princesse
Joined: Sat Feb 02, 2008 5:44 am Posts: 250 Location: There among the stars
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 Re: Chateau Saint-Cloud
oh yes it was lovely, I am so sad all of those beautiful Items and furnishings were destroyed in a fire. It is a very charming and co-ordinated room I am thinking it is maroon. It is the biggest house this or any town would ever see. How wonderfully they built back then. and extravagantly. It has a Moat?
_________________ Kära du, tillåt mig, med eld i mitt hjärta, att hålla dig varm.
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Tue Aug 05, 2008 5:42 pm |
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Comte de Provence
Prince/Princesse
Joined: Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:00 pm Posts: 2161 Location: France
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 Re: Chateau Saint-Cloud
Elle wrote: oh yes it was lovely, I am so sad all of those beautiful Items and furnishings were destroyed in a fire. It is a very charming and co-ordinated room I am thinking it is maroon. It is the biggest house this or any town would ever see. How wonderfully they built back then. and extravagantly. It has a Moat? It is not as big as it looks. No it has fountains and an Orangerie...
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Tue Aug 05, 2008 5:52 pm |
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Christophe
Prince/Princesse
Joined: Sat Nov 25, 2006 12:04 am Posts: 253 Location: Texas.
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The furniture in those photos looks to me like 2nd Empire, not Louis XVI. However, the paneling looks original. What marvelous photos from a lost world!
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Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:41 am |
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Comte de Provence
Prince/Princesse
Joined: Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:00 pm Posts: 2161 Location: France
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They are of Emeror Napoleon III. I should say it HAD an orangerie.
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Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:04 am |
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baron de batz
Prince/Princesse
Joined: Wed Mar 07, 2007 10:21 am Posts: 1545 Location: paris
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I was walking in that lost world tonight....what an atmospheric place it is on a muggy summer evening in Paris, deserted except for the tourists who don't come to the gardens of a demolished castle in the evening. And yet enough remains of the terraces and balustrades and fountains to give an idea of its' former splendour. I felt the Queen's presence at every corner as I strolled up the long flights of stone steps, stood at the stone balustrade overlooking the Seine or walked through the gardens behind where the Château was. Its' a lonely, poigant atmospheric place. The Queen was very taken with it after having been given the use of the Château, as a place for the Dauphin to go which was supposed to be better for his health. She had her famous meeting in the gardens with Mirabeau there, and Fersen visited her there from his temporary lodgings in Auteuil, after the first Tuileries incident at Easter.
_________________ "Fidelité et constance, sans espoir de récompense."
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Wed Jul 29, 2009 11:06 pm |
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Arietta
Prince/Princesse
Joined: Fri Jul 28, 2006 8:07 pm Posts: 328 Location: Maryland, USA
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This past week EM Vidal posted about St-Cloud on her blog: http://teaattrianon.blogspot.com/2009/08/saint-cloud.htmlIf I ever get to revisit France, this is a chateau I'd like to visit.
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Sun Aug 23, 2009 6:42 pm |
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versailles
Prince/Princesse
Joined: Fri May 16, 2008 1:14 am Posts: 808 Location: Le Petit Trianon, France
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Délicate fleur wrote: I was wondering, just before the establishment of the First Empire, who lived in Fontainebleu? I remember reading in a [fictional] book that it was a relation of Josephine?  What book?
_________________ “There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.”- Marie Antoinette
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Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:03 pm |
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Orleans87
Comte/Comtesse
Joined: Wed May 25, 2011 11:52 pm Posts: 36 Location: Cleveland, Ohio
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I would love to visit Saint Cloud and to see it in it's old grandeur. Thank you very much for the photos. 
_________________ J'ai tout vu, j'ai tout entendu, j'ai tout oublié
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Thu May 26, 2011 2:44 am |
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Vermandois
Noble
Joined: Wed Jun 13, 2012 5:06 am Posts: 24 Location: Perth, Australia
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