#chateau de Sceaux

[b-o-t-t]

[frogmuse]

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Sophie Aublet (@sophieaublet)

[livesunique]

Chateau de Sceaux, Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France,

Credit: Louis Paulin

[nature-and-culture]

Parc du Château de Sceaux, via georgiannalane

[vincythomas]

Hey June #summer #sceaux #parc #parcdesceaux #grden #jardin #chateau #frenchcastle (à Parc de Sceaux) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByNbjZHilLt/?igshid=1joww2vcy3aig

[stephanocardona]

Sceaux by ThomasThomopoulos

[jamesalleninparis]

CHATEAU DE SCEAUX

[parisfind]

I traveled to the park of Saint-Cloud to take a walk. It's strange to think that a chateau once sat here surrounded by (today) what is called "‘Domaine National de Saint-Cloud’, the park covers 460 hectares or over one thousand acres. It became a historic monument in 1994. These historic gardens were landscaped by the great Andre le Notre. He is responsible for the gardens of Sceaux, Fontainebleau and Versailles to name just a few. The actual Chateau would overlook the River Seine, so today when entering the gardens you come upon a wall where you can look back towards Paris. The Château was the site of a king's assasination and a home away from home for Marie-Antoinette. I missed seeing her rose garden sadly. Following the French Revolution, during the period of the Second Empire, the Emperor Napoleon III and his wife Euginie held their Spring and Summer courts at this palace. Then during the Franco-Prussian war, the château was occupied by Prussian troops. During the war the French troops fired shells on the grand château and the building caught fire on the 13th October 1870. The “fire was fierce”and the building was left an empty shell. In 1872, the decision was taken to rip down what little remained of the château. Happily there does remain these gardens to enjoy. (at Domaine de Saint Cloud) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeBAFNDgBYS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[raingallery]

Chateau de Sceaux

[veryfineday]

Sunday 30 August 1829 (travel notes)

7 10/60

12 3/4

no motion yesterday first time missed half hour on the pot this morning and it answered  pretty well then half hour with Miss H[obart]  she gets more used to me and we are capital friends  lady S[tuart] annoyed apparently at my being with Miss H[obart] last night 

breakfast at 9 3/4  off from Namur at 10 50/60 11 8/60 – Drizly morning – did not stir out – very good Inn (Hotel de Hollande) view view from the bridge en sortant towards Dinant and towards Liège  beautiful the chateau on the hill and its walls extending far along the top of the hill environs of Namur – the river scenery very fine – straw thatched or blue slated picturesque cottages beautifully scattered along the little margin river –

marchelesdames (left) at 12 5/60 after having just passed a picturesque little chateau – valley every where narrow beautifully closed in by fine rocK, beautifully wooded – the King of the netherlands has a share in this chateau de Marchelesdames and in the neighbouring usines for iron worKs – slate rocK blue – river quite muddy – current strongish – the valleys or glens every now and then striKing up from the river beautiful –

at maedeze maizeret (a few white washed houses) at 12 1/4 – bold white rocK en face and fine reach of river – at 12 20/60 the ruins of the castle of Saint Sceaux Sanson [Samson] vide Richard page 493. the souterrains still remain – a castle in the time of the Romans – must see all this country another time when more at liberty – unfortunately a thicK drizzly rain from 11 1/2 all the way –

at Selayn at 12 40/60 – stopt to refresh the horses 1/4 hour and off again at 12 55/ (sat in our carriage Lady S-[Stuart] with me – came just as I ever tooK then out of Namur – off a minute or 2 after them this morning for the 1st time lady S-[Stuart] thinKing we should get on faster if her carriage went first) Selayn (liKe all the towns and villages hereabouts built of the darK blacKish stone of the country but generally white or yellow-washed – lucKless day – still drizzling rain – from the village Salayn the valley widens a little  the hills right lower and the river closer under the hills left than right which was not the case before – still fine but not so closely and finely rocK-closed as before – birch and oaK wood – more copse and brush wood the large timber –

the valley then enlarges into a basin at the head of which right the nice looKing little town of Andenne creeping round the foot of the segment of the basin at a little distance from the river – all along wider than the Seine at the Jardin des plantes – fertile valley here – the stone of the country very liKe the darK welsh stone at Dolgelly etc. everywhere hops potatoes – oats in swathe – but not much corn – not enough to support the valley – –

leave Andenne (large good church) a little right at 12 1/2 – thro’ our road for the 1st time out of sight of the river which is to the left – valley wider all here cottages – and villages peeping from among wood rich land – thorn hedges – but large enclosures – from Waterloo to Namur few enclosures and the country therefore almost open field land save close to the villages – here in this valley from Namur [orchids/orchards] moderate size – enclosures – rich fertile valley –

lady S-[Stuart] saw yesterday between Genappe and Sombref and waggon with 8 horses each horse having a large nosegay stucK near the tail on the crupper – hills on each side everywhere beautifully wooded farms and cottages creeping along your feet – most contracted valley with bold rocK from N-[Namur] to Selayn – at 1 50/60 valley still wide and opening into amphitheatre in front but 2 chateaus left close on the other side of river – passed just passed thro’ picturesque village – ruin of castle on the top of the rocK right – fine reach of of river before us – vines on the hill side left – and fine extensive view forwards on the opening circle of hill – (miss H-Hobart on the box with Henry before us) – picturesque village along the river left and left banK – diligence just before us – Capital road all the way –

at 2 10/60 beautiful – vine-clad hills left – and village an cottages – steep high finely steep rocKy wooded hill close right – Huy and its great fortress very fine – orchids and hop gardens – fine approach to Huy – fine bridge 7 arches over the river fortress  right-town too left – alighted at the hotel de la Poste at 2 20/60 – dawdling over 1 thing or other wanted to see the fortress lady S[tuart] quizzed this ladies can understand nothing of these things thus she says of everything she does not understand herself and she understands but little 

got a man as guide – could not see the forteresse – for the last year past no English family allowed – in fact nobody but Belgians can get permission – one man lost 200 francs a year by this so many English used to go, and would stay sKetching the interior – the thing not liKed the governor asKed prince Frederic if he might refuse shewing it – yes! certainly – the fortress finished 6 years ago – just went into the cathedral only 1/2 standing – the other 1/2 burnt down 20 or 25 years ago – the plafond white and a flowery pattern painted on it – 1st time I ever saw this – handsome cathedral – mass at the time we went in and good music – then saying I only wanted to see the view from  the fortress the man tooK up up to a little chapel notre dame de Sarte § on a height above that of the fortress – long, dirty, fatiguing walK – miss H-[Hobart] tired –

[margin: § et qu’on dit miraculeuse on y vieut en pelérinage de fort loin – Le voyageur dans le royaume des pays bas. page 76. ]

tiffing as we returned she would have me do as if alone and see everything why do only what she could do  why not think of myself  said  and have pleasure in the tour  said I had  never had a pleasanter tour etc. etc.  had all I wanted then turned and asked if she did not know why I came  she said it was a puzzling question  it was passing strange did not say much but that little flattering 

out with miss H-[Hobart] from 3 25/60 to 4 35/60 – good view on the from the height  we went to, but should have gone higher – drizzling rain and uncomfortable – in returning by the grand place (well enough for a small town) saw some tolerable little shops – lady S-[Stuart] had been with her maid to the cathedral –

came in at 4 35/60 immediately had my hair done – then slept in my chair till 5 40/60 then turning out a fine evening – lady S[taurt] want asked me last night to go in her carriage with them and have all their boxes put in mine  de[c]lined this of course –

Dinner at 5 50/60 – Lady S-[Stuart] afterwards read aloud 1 of Ogden’s sermons – had just done it (at 9) when miss H-[Hobart] all but fainted and was afterwards very slightly hysterical she had eaten a cold pear before dinner  I held her head she seemed satisfied but lady S[tuart] sso fussy I could not do much  she has her cousin  miss H-[Hobart] went to bed immediately and I gave her a tumbler glass of hot gin and water – but could not go near her much Lady S[tuart] would fidget me to death if she did to me as to Miss H[obart] –

tea – Lady S-[Stuart] read aloud to me another of Odgen’s sermons – I know not which she thinks she reads well yes well enough  considering her great age and little learning  she would bore me sadly if I had much more of her  she would soon begin to order me if I would let her – just wished miss H-[Hobart] good night and came to my room at 11 1/2 – slept 20 minutes in my chair – drizly rainy day –

[chateaudeau38]

SUNDAY IN THE SHADE AT SCEAUX, PARIS

–

A Sunday escape to the suburbs of Paris and the Parc and Chateau at Sceaux.

The sun was out but the shadows looked better in black and white…

All photographs by Damien B. Donnelly

–

Parc de Sceaux is located just outside Paris, via RER B, and the Petit Chateau, rebuilt in 1850’s (originally constructed in the 15th century and later owned by JB Colbert, minister of the Navy, before it was…

[justsomeideas]

Activités "baignade"

Pour les moins de 6 ans : 1 animateur pour 5 enfants (+ le SB si il n'y a pas de maître nageur)

-> 20 enfants maximum dans l'eau

- château de sable

- creuser une piscine

- magie avec des sceaux d'eau (faire des bulles ou faire "sauter le sceau plein d'air hors de l'eau")

Pour les plus de 6 ans : 1 animateur pour 8 enfants (+ le SB si il n'y a pas de maître nageur)

-> 40 enfants maximum dans l'eau

- chateau de sable

- parcours/relais/course

- loup ou touche/touche

- les lancer dans l'eau (pour ceux qui n'ont pas peur et savent bien nager*)

* Je considère ceux qui savent nager, ceux qui peuvent aller la tête sous l'eau facilement, qui savent rester en surface immobile et qui savent nager sans couler. Les enfants répondant aux 3 critères ne portent pas de ceinture (en piscine). Les enfants ne repondant qu'à 2 ou 1 seul critère ont une ceinture allégée pour les aider à flotter (+ surveillance accrue). Le reste porte une ceinture obligatoirement avec une surveillance accrue également.

[renehw]

La Chambre du Dauphin (The Dauphin’s Bedchamber) This rooms still has much of its appearance from 1747, when it was redesigned to become part of the apartments of Louis, Dauphin de France (1729-1765). That year Louis, the eldest and only surviving son of Louis XV, and his second wife Maria Josepha of Saxony (1731-1767) took up residence on the ground floor of the central part of the Château de Versailles, on the side of the Parterre du Midi. In accordance with custom the alcove for the bed was hung with silk, the rest of the room was decorated with carved oak panelling. The bed seen here, is not the original but a so-called ‘lit à la duchesse’ that was placed here in 1991. The fabrics of this bed, that was made around 1740 for the Marquise de Créquy (1714-1803), were embroidered at the famous 18th century workshops of Saint-Cyr. The decoration on the headboard shows ‘The Sleep Endymiom’, after a story from Greek mythology. The armoire, that is inlaid with panels of red and gold Chinese lacquer, is from circa 1755 and was made by cabinet maker Bernard II Van Risen Burgh (or Vanrisamburgh, c. 1696-before 1797). It was transferred from the Louvre to Versailles in 1976. Its original owner was Jean-Baptiste de Machault d’Arnouville (1701-1794), a prominent figure in 18th century French politics; in 1745 he became ‘contrôleur général des Finances’ and in 1750 he became ‘garde des Sceaux’. The apartements of the Dauphin are currently undergoing restoration works. @chateauversailles #chateauversailles #châteauversailles #versailles #chateaudeversailles #châteaudeversailles #france #18thcentury #interior #bed #bedroom #dauphin #palace #chateau #château #furniture #saintcyr #museum #art #armoire #vanrisamburgh (bij Château de Versailles) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_172FsFuTP/?igshid=1aflturth97hy

[lecastorvoyageur]

#france #vacances #holidays #instagram #instagramers #instapic #instaphotos #picoftheday #pretty #joli #love #liketolike #chateau #chateaudesceaux #paris #anthony (à Château de Sceaux) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1gexUhH3Ze/?igshid=5eftd052v0im

[steliosagapitos]

The death of the princesse de Lamballe Portrait by Marie-Victoire Lemoine, dated 1779 Sold at Christie's in April 2012 On this day, 3rd September, in 1792 the Princesse de Lamballe, companion of Marie-Antoinette, was bludgeoned to death outside the La Force prison, her body stripped, her heart torn out, her head hacked off and impaled on a pike, and her pathetic remains paraded in bloody triumph through Paris over several hours.  Exact details are disputed and her murder was not, of course, the only act of Revolutionary violence that September, Nonetheless the brutality of her death continues to exercise a fascination due to the contrast with her privileged aristocratic upbringing and reputation for refined sensibilities. The archetypal victim, the Princess in many ways represented a substitute for Marie-Antoinette herself. The "myth" of the Princesse de Lamballe has recently been explored in depth by Antoine De Baecque in his Glory and Terror: seven deaths under the French Revolution (English version 2002).  What follows is a modest attempt to piece together what actually happened in those final hours. Who was the Princesse de Lamballe? As the daughter of Prince Louis-Victor de Savoie-Carignan  of the House of Savoy, Marie-Thérèse Louise de Savoie-Carignan (1749-1792) was a blue-blood of impeccable credentials. In 1767 she was splendidly married by proxy to the young Prince de Lamballe, huntsman of France and only son of the duc de Penthièvre, cousin of Louis XVI. Unfortunately the fairy-tale union was cut short by the premature death of her thoroughly debauched young husband, leaving the Princess to be presented at Court already a widow at the tender age of nineteen.   Various projects for her remarriage came to naught. Financially liberated by marriage settlement - 60,000 livres, plus a life interest on further 30,000 livres - she seemed genuinely devoted to her father-in-law, who had a great reputation for piety and good works.  Neither maid nor wife, she therefore continued - like Marie-Antoinette, with her unconsummated marriage - to inhabit a strange and ambivalent sexual no-man's-land. For a while she was joined in intimate friendship with the Queen - a relationship massively charged  with Rousseauist emotion; Marie-Antoinette even had her friend's image painted on a mirror to make life bearable when they were briefly parted.The impression they gave was one of thoughtless insouciance.  In the terrible winter of 1776, whilst people starved, the two famously fair-haired young women, twins in their bejewelled white furs, zooming through Paris on a horse-drawn sledge,  the Princesse de Lamballe looking, as Madame Campan has it, like "spring clothed with ermine" or "a rose in the snow". Alexander Roslin, Portrait of an unknown woman, speculatively identified as the princesse de Lamballe. In 1775 the Princess was brought to public attention for the first time, when Marie-Antoinette revived at fabulous expense for her favourite the position of superintendant of the the Queen's household, a move widely thought to be responsible for the fall of Turgot who had protested against the extravagance.  Unfortunately for her future reputation, the Princess revealed herself as both a stickler for protocol and grasping for property and sinecures on behalf of her relatives (both her brothers were given senior army posts).  Despite her considerable private income, she insisted on the entire salary for the post attracted and ill-advisedly offended courtiers when she as she demurred from issuing invitations to events as demeaning to her status. It was as part of a campaign orchestrated by members of the Court, that suggestions of an improper relationship between the two young women began to circulate: she became an iconic hate-figure second only to the queen herself, a milky-skinned blond ice-maiden of unshakeable hauteur and hidden perversity. Jean-Baptiste Charpentier,  The duc de Penthièvre and his daughter, Chateau de Versailles Ironically enough it was at this very time that the Princess was largely replaced in Marie-Antoinette's affections by the  duchesse de Polignac.  From the mid-1770s, she was to keep at a discreet distance, either with her father-in-law's at Sceaux or Rambouillet or in circle of the duc de Chartres, later duc d'Orléans, who was married to the duc de Penthièvre's daughter, Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon.  It was this last association which prompted Louis XVI to discourage the friendship with his wife.  Prompted by her brother-in-law, the Princess became involved in the fashionable new craze of freemasonry at this time and was Grand Mistress of Loge du Contrat-Social in 1780.  Though later associated with radical politics, this brand of freemasonry was really little more than a pretext for balls, suppers and social events.  A number of society portraits of the Princess survive from this period -  small featured and fair, she is clearly recognisable by her pearls and the three feathers which characteristically adorned her luxuriant blond hair. By Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, painted in 1782, Château de Versailles The accounts give a picture of a woman who was sweet-natured but protective of her privileged status, obliging to her friends and family and a little slow-witted.  Straightforwardly and unimaginatively pious, she gave generously to the poor ("vos pauvres" as Marie-Antoinette remarked). In appearance she was small and fragile - even Madame de Genlis, who disliked her, admitted that she was "delicately pretty". Her best feature was the beautiful blond hair which, when it fell from beneath her cap after a bath, completely covered her face and shoulders.  She was also weak in health and prone to fainting fits - though whether from a definite medical problem or an oversensitive imagination is unclear. The unkind Madame de Genlis thought the faints were a deliberate affectation - for a whole year the Princess made a point of fainting twice a week at fixed hours, her doctor conveniently at hand. We learn that she fainted in a visit to Crécy when one of the servants yawned incautiously while the party were enjoying a ghost story.  It was a favourite anecdote that she even fainted at sight of a painting of a lobster. The Princess during the Revolution After the Diamond Necklace affair, the Princess regained some of her lost favour. As Olivier Blanc notes, her portraits from the late 1780s suggest a desire to appear more serious and reflective; thus Anton Hickel in 1788 depicts her at her desk, pen in hand: Portrait by Anton Hickel, 1788 Liechtenstein Princely Collections .  After October 1789, following flight of Madame de Polignac and the transfer of the Court to Paris, she once again took up her duties as superintendant in charge of ceremonies, this time at the Tuileries.  There are some hints that she was more actively involved than is at first sight apparent in the machinations of the captive court. Her name appears, for instance, in a list of recipients of secret payments from the Ministry for Foreign affairs.  At time of the flight to Varennes she embarked from Dieppe with a passport signed by Montmorin in April 1791 and successfully reached England.  If the 19th-century Secret memoirs of the Princess Lamballe are to be believed, she was involved in a whole series of manoeuvres  to discover the disposition of the Pitt government.  However,  the careful researches of Georges Bertin suggest a more modest itinerary;  the Princess was at Passy on 20th June when she heard news of the projected royal flight, went thence to Boulogne, crossed to Dover on the 23rd, took ship the next day for Ostend, and arrived at Brussels on the 27th.  After the arrest of the royal family, she progressed to  Aix-la-Chapelle, where she dictated  her will on 15 October and then,  whether by her own initiative or on Marie-Antoinette's instruction, returned courageously to Paris and her duties as superintendant.   Handwriting and signature of the Princesse de Lamballe Reproduced from Lescure, La princesse de Lamballe (1864)

Shortly afterwards the Princess was denounced by Committee of Surveillance of the Legislative Assembly and also pinpointed in the Revolutionary press for her involvement in the  the secret machinations of the Court.  No doubt at the very least she had some role as intermediary in the manoeuvres of the so-called "Austrian committee" and knew the identities of compromised Revolutionaries such as Sombreuil, Brissac, Valdec de Lassart, Thierry de Ville-d'Avray, through whom the Court had attempted to influence the decisions of the Revolutionary government. By the fateful events of the 10th August, she was already singled out for vengeance....... I Arms of the Princesse de Lamballe, Reproduced in Paul Fassy, Episodes de l'histoire de Paris sous la Terreur (1886) References Antoine De Baecque, Glory and Terror: seven deaths under the French Revolution (2002) Antonia Fraser, Marie-Antoinette: the journey (2006) Olivier Blanc, Portraits des femmes :  artistes et modèles à l'époque de Marie-Antoinette (2006),p.199-206.

[topcao]

Sceaux by ThomasThomopoulos