The Hameau de Chantilly ('hamlet of Chantilly') is a
folly
In architecture, a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but suggesting through its appearance some other purpose, or of such extravagant appearance that it transcends the range of usual garden buildings.
Eighteenth-cent ...
in the park of the
Château de Chantilly The Château de Chantilly () is a historic French château located in the town of Chantilly, Oise, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of Paris. The site comprises two attached buildings: the Petit Château, built around 1560 for Anne de Montmore ...
built in 1774 and consisting of seven rustic thatched cottages with luxurious interiors set in a garden.
Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé
Louis Joseph de Bourbon (9 August 1736 Р13 May 1818) was Prince of Cond̩ from 1740 to his death. A member of the House of Bourbon, he held the prestigious rank of '' Prince du Sang''.
Youth
Born on 9 August 1736 at Chantilly, Louis Jo ...
had his architect
Jean-François Leroy design seven rustic cottages for the grounds of the Château de Chantilly in 1774: ''le Salon'' 'the parlor', ''le Billard'' 'the billiard room', ''la Salle à manger'' 'the dining room', ''la Cuisine'' 'the kitchen', ''le Moulin'' 'the mill'; ''l'Étable'' 'the stables' and ''le
Cabinet de lecture'' 'the reading room' no longer stand. The contrast between the rustic exteriors and the richly decorated interiors surprised and astonished guests. The success and reputation of this hamlet inspired
Queen Marie-Antoinette's
Hameau de la reine in the gardens of the
Petit Trianon
The Petit Trianon (; French for 'small Trianon') is a Neoclassical architecture, Neoclassical style château located on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles in Versailles, Yvelines, Versailles, France. It was built between 1762 and 1768 ...
at the
Château de Versailles
The Palace of Versailles ( ; ) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, in the Yvelines Department of ÃŽle-de-France region in France.
The palace is owned by the government of F ...
. The
Revolution
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spared the hamlet, which was restored by
Henri d'Orléans, Duc d'Aumale
Henri Eugène Philippe Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale (16 January 1822 – 7 May 1897) was a leader of the Orleanists, a political faction in 19th-century France associated with constitutional monarchy. He was born in Paris, the fifth son of ...
when he returned to Chantilly in 1870.
In 2007-2008, the exteriors of the cottages were restored using period watercolors and engravings to guide the work; the original rich interiors, however, had disappeared during the 19th century.
[Claire Bommelaer, "Le hameau de Chantilly retrouve son aspect XVIIIe", '']Le Figaro
() is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It was named after Figaro, a character in several plays by polymath Pierre Beaumarchais, Beaumarchais (1732–1799): ''Le Barbier de Séville'', ''The Guilty Mother, La Mère coupable'', ...
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Currently the mill houses a restaurant, ''Aux Goûters Champêtres''.
In 1787, Bathilde d'Orléans
Bathilde d'Orléans (Louise Marie Thérèse Bathilde; 9 July 1750 – 10 January 1822) was a French princess of the blood of the House of Orléans. She was sister of Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, ''Philippe Égalité'', the mother of t ...
, whose main residence was the Château de Chantilly, built a similar hameau in the gardens of the Élysée Palace
The Élysée Palace (, ) is the official residence of the President of France, President of the French Republic in Paris. Completed in 1722, it was built for Louis Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, a nobleman and army officer who had been appointed g ...
, the Hameau de Chantilly (Paris).
See also
* Cottage orné
dates back to a movement of "rustic" stylised cottages of the late 18th and early 19th centuries during the Romantic movement, when some sought to discover a more natural way of living as opposed to the formality of the preceding Baroque and Neo ...
* Ferme ornée
The term ''ferme ornée'' as used in English garden history derives from Stephen Switzer's term for 'ornamental farm'. It describes a country estate laid out partly according to aesthetic principles and partly for farming. During the eighteenth ce ...
* French landscape garden#The rustic village (hameau) as garden feature
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Houses completed in 1774
Folly buildings in France
Buildings and structures in Oise
House of Bourbon-Condé
1774 establishments in France