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Château D'Abondant
Château d'Abondant is a château in Abondant, in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France, built in the mid 17th century and significantly remodelled and enlarged in the 1750s under the direction of Jean Mansart de Jouy. The Château was designated as a French historic monument in 1928 and in 2018, it was restored and converted into apartments. History The first recorded owner is Pierre Bigot, "Lord of Fay and forest Houdan." In 1485, Guillaume La Guiry is mentioned as Lord of Fay and Abondant, and, in 1560, Jean Mangot, Ensign; the land passed to his son Louis Mangot, who still owned the property in 1618. In the first quarter of the seventeenth century, Joachim de Bellengreville, Grand Provost of France, acquired the seigniory of Abondant. In 1645, his widow, Marie de La Noue (a granddaughter of Huguenot Capt. François de la Noue), traded the property with Jacques Bouchet de Sourches, Abbot of Saint-Martin of Troarn, for the estate of Montguichet, located near Gagny. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abondant
Abondant () is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France. History It is located 10 km north east of Dreux on the D147 road. The l'Avre aqueduct passes to the north of the commune. The Château d'Abondant dates from the reign of Louis XIII and is now a care home. It was previously owned by banker Henry Herman Harjes, Baron Jules de Koenigswarter and his wife, the former Pannonica Rothschild. Population See also *Communes of the Eure-et-Loir department The following is a list of the 365 communes of the Eure-et-Loir department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Eure-et-Loir {{EureLoir-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis II Du Bouchet De Sourches
Louis II du Bouchet de Sourches, Marquess of Sourches (25 November 1711 – 9 April 1788) was a French nobleman, soldier and senior courtier. Biography Sourches was the only son of Louis I du Bouchet de Sourches, Marquess of Sourches (1666–1746) and Jeanne Agnès Thérèse Pocholles du Hamel. From 1719, when aged only eight years old, he received the reversion of the office of Grand Provost of France, and assumed the role fully upon his father's death in 1746. In this capacity Sourches was head of the court police and had jurisdiction over the Maison Militaire du Roi de France under Louis XV. He was a lieutenant general of the king's armies and on 1 January 1773 he was made a knight of the Order of the Holy Spirit. He was also a knight of the Order of Saint Michael. He retained the role of Grand Provost upon the accession of Louis XVI in 1774. He served in the French army during the American Revolutionary War. Between 1747 and 1750, he had Château d'Abondant in Abondant transf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Herman Harjes
Henry Herman Harjes (20 February 1875 – 20 August 1926) was a French born American polo player and banker with Morgan, Harjes & Co. Early life Harjes was born on 20 February 1875 in Paris, France. He was a son of John Henry Harjes (1829–1914) and Amelia ( née Hessenbruch) Harjes (1841–1934). Among his siblings was Louise Rosalie Harjes (wife of Charles Messenger Moore), Amelia Mae Harjes, John Henry Harjes Jr., Margaretha "Nelly" Harjes (wife of jeweler Jacques Cartier). His maternal grandparents were Theophilus Hessenbruch and Bertha (née Everts) Hessenbruch. He was educated by private tutors in England and America before beginning his career as a clerk in the office of J.P. Morgan & Co. in 1896. Career Harjes was a prominent banker who became the senior partner of Morgan, Harjes & Co. of Paris, which was founded as Drexel, Harjes & Co. by his father John Harjes in 1868, after he moved to Paris from Philadelphia in 1854. Harjes and his father, who was born in Swi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louvre
The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is the world's most-visited museum, and an historic landmark in Paris, France. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the ''Mona Lisa'' and the ''Venus de Milo''. A central landmark of the city, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement (district or ward). At any given point in time, approximately 38,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century are being exhibited over an area of 72,735 square meters (782,910 square feet). Attendance in 2021 was 2.8 million due to the COVID-19 pandemic, up five percent from 2020, but far below pre-COVID attendance. Nonetheless, the Louvre still topped the list of most-visited art museums in the world in 2021."The Art Newspaper", 30 March 2021. The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace, originally built in the late 12th to 13th century under Philip II. Remnants of the Medieval Louvre fortress are visible in the basement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musée Du Louvre
The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is the world's most-visited museum, and an historic landmark in Paris, France. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the ''Mona Lisa'' and the ''Venus de Milo''. A central landmark of the city, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement (district or ward). At any given point in time, approximately 38,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century are being exhibited over an area of 72,735 square meters (782,910 square feet). Attendance in 2021 was 2.8 million due to the COVID-19 pandemic, up five percent from 2020, but far below pre-COVID attendance. Nonetheless, the Louvre still topped the list of most-visited art museums in the world in 2021."The Art Newspaper", 30 March 2021. The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace, originally built in the late 12th to 13th century under Philip II. Remnants of the Medieval Louvre fortress are visible in the basement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duc Des Cars
Duke of Cars (french: duc des Cars, comte des Cars) is a French noble title that was first created in 1816. Creation of the title Jean-François de Pérusse des Cars was created Lieutenant-General of the Armies on 22 June 1814 and Premier Maître d'hôtel du Roi to King Louis XVIII of France on 23 August 1814. After the death of his eldest brother in March 1814, he was created Count of Cars and brevet Duke of Cars on 9 March 1816. The dukedom was officially registered with the regional Parlement on 29 December 1817. The 1st Duke died on 10 November 1822 at Tuileries Palace in Paris without male issue. In 1825, the title was renewed on behalf of the son of the Duke's first cousin, Amédée François Régis de Perusse des Cars. Since its renewal, the title has been inherited by a son of the preceding Duke. List of Dukes of Cars The Dukes of Cars since 1816: Pérusse des Cars estates * Château des Cars (Haute-Vienne), original seat of the Pérusse des Cars family. * Chà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amédée-François-Régis De Pérusse Des Cars
Amédée-François-Régis de Pérusse des Cars (30 December 1790 – 19 January 1868) was a French nobleman and soldier. Early life Amédée-François-Régis de Pérusse des Cars was born at Chambéry, Savoie, France on 30 December 1790. He was a son of François-Nicolas-René de Pérusse des Cars, Comte des Cars, and Etienette Charlotte Dorothée Emilie de Ligny. His paternal grandparents were Jeanne Marie Victoire d'Artaguiette de la Huette de Carvoisin and Louis-Nicolas de Pérusse des Cars, Marquis des Cars (a son of Louis François de Pérusse des Cars, Comte des Cars and Marquis de Pranzac, and the former Marie-Françoise-Victoire de Verthamon). His maternal grandparents were Adrien Charles de Ligny and Élisabeth Jeanne de La Roche. Career A member of the French army known as the Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis, he participated in the 1823 expedition mobilized by the Bourbon King of France, Louis XVIII, to help the Spanish Royalists restore King Ferdinand VII of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duke Of Cars
Duke of Cars (french: duc des Cars, comte des Cars) is a French noble title that was first created in 1816. Creation of the title Jean-François de Pérusse des Cars was created Lieutenant-General of the Armies on 22 June 1814 and Premier Maître d'hôtel du Roi to King Louis XVIII of France on 23 August 1814. After the death of his eldest brother in March 1814, he was created Count of Cars and brevet Duke of Cars on 9 March 1816. The dukedom was officially registered with the regional Parlement on 29 December 1817. The 1st Duke died on 10 November 1822 at Tuileries Palace in Paris without male issue. In 1825, the title was renewed on behalf of the son of the Duke's first cousin, Amédée François Régis de Perusse des Cars. Since its renewal, the title has been inherited by a son of the preceding Duke. List of Dukes of Cars The Dukes of Cars since 1816: Pérusse des Cars estates * Château des Cars (Haute-Vienne), original seat of the Pérusse des Cars family. * C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duchess Of Tourzel
Duke is a male title either of a monarch ruling over a duchy, or of a member of royalty, or nobility. As rulers, dukes are ranked below emperors, kings, grand princes, grand dukes, and sovereign princes. As royalty or nobility, they are ranked below princess nobility and grand dukes. The title comes from French ''duc'', itself from the Latin ''dux'', 'leader', a term used in republican Rome to refer to a military commander without an official rank (particularly one of Germanic or Celtic origin), and later coming to mean the leading military commander of a province. In most countries, the word ''duchess'' is the female equivalent. Following the reforms of the emperor Diocletian (which separated the civilian and military administrations of the Roman provinces), a ''dux'' became the military commander in each province. The title ''dux'', Hellenised to ''doux'', survived in the Eastern Roman Empire where it continued in several contexts, signifying a rank equivalent to a captain o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bourbon Restoration In France
The Bourbon Restoration was the period of French history during which the House of Bourbon returned to power after the first fall of Napoleon on 3 May 1814. Briefly interrupted by the Hundred Days War in 1815, the Restoration lasted until the July Revolution of 26 July 1830. Louis XVIII and Charles X, brothers of the executed king Louis XVI, successively mounted the throne and instituted a conservative government intended to restore the proprieties, if not all the institutions, of the Ancien Régime. Exiled supporters of the monarchy returned to France but were unable to reverse most of the changes made by the French Revolution. Exhausted by decades of war, the nation experienced a period of internal and external peace, stable economic prosperity and the preliminaries of industrialization. Background Following the French Revolution (1789–1799), Napoleon Bonaparte became ruler of France. After years of expansion of his French Empire by successive military victories, a coaliti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Revolution
The French Revolution ( ) was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799. Many of its ideas are considered fundamental principles of liberal democracy, while phrases like ''liberté, égalité, fraternité'' reappeared in other revolts, such as the 1917 Russian Revolution, and inspired campaigns for the abolition of slavery and universal suffrage. The values and institutions it created dominate French politics to this day. Its causes are generally agreed to be a combination of social, political and economic factors, which the ''Ancien Régime'' proved unable to manage. In May 1789, widespread social distress led to the convocation of the Estates General, which was converted into a National Assembly in June. Continuing unrest culminated in the Storming of the Bastille on 14 July, which led to a series of radical measures by the Assembly, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise-Élisabeth De Croÿ De Tourzel
Louise-Élisabeth de Croÿ de Tourzel (Louise Élisabeth Félicité Françoise Armande Anne Marie Jeanne Joséphine de Croÿ de Tourzel; 11 June 1749 – 15 May 1832) was a French noblewoman and courtier, as the Marquise of Tourzel. She was the Governess of the Children of France from 1789 until 1792. Decades after the French Revolution, Louise-Élisabeth published her memoirs, which presented a unique perspective on the royal family during the French Revolution. She later acquired the title of duchess. Life Louise Élisabeth was born in Paris, into the illustrious House of Croÿ during the reign of King Louis XV. Louise’s father was the duke of Havré, Louis Ferdinand Joseph, and her mother was the princess of Montmorency-Luxembourg, Marie Louise. Louise Élisabeth was married in 1766, at the age of seventeen, to the Marquis de Tourzel. They enjoyed a happy marriage for twenty years, in which Louise Élisabeth bore six children; her husband was, however, killed in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
