Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Last night at Château de Sceaux ~~~ Gestern Abend im Schloss de Sceaux

Yesterday we went to a very beautiful park called ‘Parc de Sceaux’. It was very hot here in the afternoon, so it was lovely to go for walks in the evening; we left at 8pm and were back around 11 pm. Here some pictures:
Gestern abend sind wir noch in einem wunderschönen Park
Nachmittags ist es noch so warm, so dass wir noch am Abend spazieren gehen. Wir sind um 20 Uhr los und kamen so gegen 23 Uhr zurück. Hier sind einige Bilder:








The Château de Sceaux is a grand country house in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, not far from Paris, France. Located in a park laid out by André Le Nôtre, it houses the Musée de l’Île-de-France, a museum of local history. The former château was built for Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV's minister of finance, who purchased the domaine in 1670. The present château, designed to evoke the style of Louis XIII, dates from the Second Empire. Some of Colbert's outbuildings remain, and the bones of the garden layout.The duc de Trévise, son of Napoleon's Maréchal Mortier, who had married the daughter of M. Lecomte, inherited the domaine and set to restoring the park and the pavilion and Orangerie. The gardens were restored, with parterres and gravel largely replaced by clipped lawns. In 1856-62 he erected the present smaller château in brick with stone quoins, designed to evoke the style of Louis XIII, designed by the architect Augustin Théophile Quantinet and built by Joseph-Michel Le Soufaché.

In 1922, the heiress of Trévise, princesse de Faucigny-Cystra, planned to give up Sceaux to real estate developers; through the efforts of the mayor Jean-Baptiste Bergeret de Frouville it was preserved and opened to the public of the town that had grown up around the park. (Text copied from Wikipedia)

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