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The Château de Bagnolet was a château situated in the Paris suburb of Bagnolet, France, 5.2 km from the center of the capital. The property was part of the ''biens de la Maison d'Orléans'', private property of the House of Orléans from 1719 till 1769. ==History== The original château was constructed in the 17th century by Marie de Bourbon, Countess of Soissons and Princess of Carignano after her marriage to Prince Thomas Francis of Savoy.〔Prince of Carignano from circa 1596 and son of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy and Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain〕 At her death in 1692, aged 86, the property was acquired by the ''fermier général'',〔In the ''Ancien Régime'', the ''Ferme générale'' was essentially a franchised customs and excise operation which collected duties on behalf of the king, under 6-year contracts.〕 François Le Juge. François Le Juge owned the property until 12 March 1719 when Philippe d'Orléans, (Regent of France during the minority of Louis XV), acquired it. The ''Régent'' gave the château de Bagnolet to his wife, Françoise Marie de Bourbon, a ''Légitimée de France'', daughter of Louis XIV and his mistress, Madame de Montespan.〔Prior to her marriage in 1692, Françoise-Marie de Bourbon was known as the "seconde ''Mademoiselle de Blois'', the first one having been the deceased daughter of Louis XIV and his favorite, Louise de La Vallière."〕 The Palais-Royal in Paris was the Duke of Orléans' official residence.〔The Château de Saint-Cloud, the centre of power during the Regency, was the preferred residence of the Regent's mother Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate.〕 The Duchess of Orléans made Bagnolet her favourite residence, it becoming her property as a gift from her husband. She had the architect Claude Desgots (grand-nephew of André Le Nôtre) add two large wings to the building; she also had the park redesigned. In the park she commissioned the construction of follies; small ornamental pavilions. There were at least four such constructions: the Wood House, the Gazebo, the Hermitage and the Orangerie. Only the Hermitage exists today. There was a formal ''Jardin à la française'' and a larger English garden. In 1734, the Dowager Duchess of Orléans〔widowed in 1723〕 let her daughter Philippine Élisabeth d'Orléans stay at the château; the young woman had once been engaged to the future Charles III of Spain; the couple was much in love, but the marriage never took place. Philippine Élisabeth was sent back to France unmarried and ignored; she died at Bagnolet of smallpox at the age of 19. At the death of the Duchess on 1 February 1749,〔Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, ''duchesse d'Orléans'', died on 1 February 1749 at the Palais-Royal in Paris.〕 her son, Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans, inherited the Bagnolet estate. He never lived there, having retired to the ''Abbaye Sainte-Geneviève de Paris'' in 1740 after the death of his wife in 1726. By 1759, the estate covered . The château remained the property of the House of Orléans until 1769. The only son of Louis d'Orléans became the Duke of Orléans upon his father's death in 1752. He sold the property and later acquired the larger Château du Raincy from the marquis du Livry. The château was demolished in the 19th century and the land was sold off. Most of what made up the estate is now a residential estate. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Château de Bagnolet, Paris」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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