The Pavilion du Butard is a hunting lodge in the Forêt de Fausses-Reposes in the territory of

La Celle-Saint-Cloud La Celle-Saint-Cloud () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in Northern France. It is a western outer suburb of Paris, from its centre, on the departmental border with Hauts-de-Seine. In 2021, it had a popula ...

Yvelines Yvelines () is a department in the western part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France. In 2019, it had a population of 1,448,207.France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...

. Part of the

gardens of Versailles The Gardens of Versailles ( ) occupy part of what was once the ''Domaine royal de Versailles'', the royal demesne of the Palace of Versailles, château of Versailles. Situated to the west of the Palace of Versailles, palace, the gardens cover so ...

, it was designed by

Ange-Jacques Gabriel Ange-Jacques Gabriel (; 23 October 1698 – 4 January 1782) was the principal architect of King Louis XV of France. His major works included the Place de la Concorde, the École Militaire, and the Petit Trianon and opera theater at the Palace of ...

for

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and built between 1750 and 1754. It was made state property on 27 June 1794 by François-Nicolas Périgon, notary at Paris, during the French Revolution. On 23 April 1802 it became the property of empress

Joséphine de Beauharnais Joséphine Bonaparte (, born Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie; 23 June 1763 – 29 May 1814) was the first wife of Emperor Napoleon I and as such Empress of the French from 18 May 1804 until their marriage was annulled on 10 Janua ...

, who wished to merge it with her Malmaison estate, but it returned to being state property on her divorce from

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in 1809. It was later also enjoyed by

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and emperor

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. It was occupied by the Prussians during the

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. Still state property, it was made a

monument historique () is a designation given to some national heritage sites in France. It may also refer to the state procedure in France by which national heritage protection is extended to a building, a specific part of a building, a collection of buildings, ...

on 29 August 1927. Pavillon du Butard situé dans la forêt domaniale de Fausses-Reposes In 2019, the pavilion is the subject of interest from the Centre des Monuments Nationaux, with a view to a hypothetical purchase.

Sources

Detailed history of the Pavillon du Butard by Ed Christen – on Gallica
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Philippe Loiseleur des Longchamps Deville Philippe Loiseleur des Longchamps Deville (27 July 1923 – 24 February 2003) was a French historian. Life Born in Dakar, he was the eldest son of Henry Loiseleur des Longchamps Deville (1887, Paris – 1956, Sarlat), chief administrator of Fr ...

, ''

La Celle Saint-Cloud La Celle-Saint-Cloud () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in Northern France. It is a western outer suburb of Paris, from its centre, on the departmental border with Hauts-de-Seine. In 2021, it had a populati ...

, cellule d'histoire'', Pontoise, Graphédis, 1979

References

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