THE PINK PALACE
A palace adorned with pink marble pilasters, built in 1900 on the model of the Grand Trianon, with multiple owners.
Built in 1900 by shipowner Arthur Schweitzer, the Palais Rose owes its name to the pink marble pilasters that adorn its façade. Its architectural style reproduces that of the Grand Trianon in Versailles, very much in vogue at the time; the eastern facade overlooking the lake is a very faithful reproduction, while the other sides are more freely inspired.
Put up for auction in 1906, after the bankruptcy of its owner, the mansion was acquired by the billionaire Ratanji Jamsetji Tata. Two years later, Count Robert de Montesquiou bought the property and lived there until 1921. He built the Hermitage building to house his library, and landscaped the grounds with several statues and a rotunda dubbed the "Temple of Love" - at the time, it housed a marble basin from Madame de Montespan's Versailles apartment. A veritable place of festivities and revelry, the residence was visited by a host of artists and personalities of the era, including Jean Cocteau, Claude Debussy, Colette and Sarah Bernhardt. In 1923, the palace was acquired by Marquise Luisa Casati, the eccentric and fascinating muse of the Années Folles. In 1934, after yet another purchase, the Château de Versailles managed to recover the marble "bathtub" by demolishing part of the Temple to extract it and bring it back to the Orangerie.
In the 1980s, architect Jean-Louis Cardin made a number of modifications to the building, which was finally listed on the Inventaire supplémentaire des Monuments historiques in 1988.
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