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Updated: May 10, 2025
On the summit of Montmartre, is a circular terrace, in the centre of which stands a windmill, and not far from it, are several others. Round its brow are several maisonettes, or little country boxes, and also some public gardens with bowers, where lovers often regale their mistresses. Hence you command a full view of the city of Paris.
On the other hand, I walked a mile the other day to see a perfect arch down in South Kensington, and there are some new maisonettes in Queen Anne Street without a single erring line." Burton poured himself out a glass of wine from the bottle which his companion had ordered. "Mr. Waddington," he said, "this is a queer thing that has happened to us."
Mansart himself made way with the old tourelles and the balustrade which rounded off the angles of the walls of the main buildings and substituted a series of heavy, ugly maisonettes, more like the bastions of a fortress than any adjunct to a princely dwelling. The courtyard of the chateau is curiously disposed; "so that it may receive the sun at all times," was the claim of its designer.
To show that he was persona grata at court he gave a great fête here for Louis XV and the Duchesse du Barry. The last Prince de Condé but one before the Revolution built the Chateau d'Enghien in the neighbourhood, and sought to people the Parc de Sylvie with a rustic colony of thatched maisonettes and install his favourites therein in a weak imitation of what had been done in the Petit Trianon.
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