Ile-de-France it is - but that's not, what I want as answer - at least the town, place I'd like, if not the building. :wink:
Is the building the home of one of the impressionists?
No. (And if I'm not totally wrong, no-one ever lived in that house.)
Hmmm. Well, Walter, I'll try again later, buddy. I have let the day get away from me.
Well, Europe is asleep, and I have searched every where for that house with nobody in it.
Maybe C.I.?
Well, C.I. Here's what we have to work with:
The Best Castles, Palaces & Historic Homes
Château de Chantilly/Musée Condé (Ile de France): Anne de Montmorency, a constable of France who advised six monarchs, began this palace in 1560. To save costs, he ordered the new building placed atop the foundations of a derelict castle. His descendants enlarged and embellished the premises, added the massive stables, and hired Le Nôtre to design gardens that later inspired Louis XVI to create similar, larger ones at Versailles.
Château de Versailles (Ile de France): This is the most spectacular palace in the world. Its construction was fraught with ironies and tragedies, and its costs were a factor in the bloodbath of the French Revolution. Ringed with world-class gardens and a network of canals whose excavation required an army of laborers, the site also contains the Grand and Petit Trianons as well as miles of ornate corridors lined with the spoils of a vanished era.
Palais de Fontainebleau (Ile de France): Since the days of the earliest Frankish kings, the forest has served as a royal hunting ground. Various dwellings had been erected for medieval kings, but in 1528, François I commissioned the core of the building that subsequent monarchs would enlarge and embellish. Napoléon declared it his favorite château, delivering an emotional farewell to his troops from its exterior staircase after his 1814 abdication.
Château d'Azay-le-Rideau (Loire Valley): Visitors thrill to this château's beauty. Poised above the waters of the Indre, it boasts decorative remnants of medieval fortifications and an atmosphere that prefigures the Renaissance embellishments of later Loire Valley châteaux.
Château de Chambord (Loire Valley): Despite the incorporation (probably by Michelangelo) of feudal trappings in its layout, this château was built for pleasure -- a manifestation of the successes of the 21-year-old François I. Begun in 1519 as the Loire Valley's most opulent status symbol, Chambord heralded the end of the feudal age and the dawn of the Renaissance. After military defeats in Italy, a chastened François rarely visited, opting to live in châteaux closer to Paris.
Château de Chenonceau (Loire Valley): Its builders daringly placed this palace, built between 1513 and 1521, on arched stone vaults above the rushing Cher River. Two of France's most influential women, each of whom imposed her will on Renaissance politics and the château's design, fought over Chenonceau. Henri II gave the palace to his mistress, Diane de Poitiers. After the king's death, his widow, Catherine de Médici, humiliated Diane by forcing her to move to a less prestigious château in nearby Chaumont.
Surely one of those guesses will be correct.
I recognize some of those names, but do not think they are "good" guesses.
It's a house. situated close to a place noted by Letty above - actually somehow belonging to it.
(Try the upper half :wink: )
I guess it's probably one of these houses the Kings of France built for their lovers.
And this one could be in Fontainebleau (even though I know it well, I dont remember this house)
No, no king built it and not such a minor castle like Fontainebleau. :wink:
So we are talking about Versailles...
You are .... but correctly.
And since we are perhaps not talking about a king ... :wink:
I've seen it before but with time memories fade away...
It's "Le Hameau de la Reine" in Versailles.
Marie Antoinette built it.
Francis wrote:So we are talking about Versailles...
Walter Hinteler wrote:...such a minor castle like Fontainebleau. :wink:
Always got speed trapped there on the N 27
Francis wrote:So we are talking about Versailles...
Parking free at 'Porte St. Antoine' and just a short walk to ... correct, Francis: the "Le Hameau de la Reine" (the mill, it is, within that [fake] hamlet).
Your turn, before memories turn you away completely :wink:
Hi, Satt! Haven't seen you here for a longtime (and I think I understand why).
Not south...
