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

La Celle-Saint-Cloud is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris from the center.-Transport:...

 in Yvelines

Yvelines

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, France

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. Part of the gardens of Versailles

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, it was designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel

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 for Louis XV 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

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. On 23 April 1802 it became the property of empress Joséphine de Beauharnais

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, who wished to merge it with her Malmaison

Château de Malmaison

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 estate, but it returned to being state property on her divorce from Napoleon

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 in 1809. It was later also enjoyed by Charles X of France

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 and emperor Napoleon III of France

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. It was occupied by the Prussians during the Franco-Prussian War

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. Still state property, it was made a monument historique

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 on 29 August 1927.

Sources

• Detailed history of the Pavillon du Butard by Ed Christen - on Gallica
• Philippe Loiseleur des Longchamps Deville, La Celle Saint-Cloud
  La Celle-Saint-Cloud
  La Celle-Saint-Cloud is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris from the center.-Transport:...
  
  , cellule d'histoire, Pontoise, Graphédis, 1979