Exceptional opening of the Maison Masséna

Name: Ouverture exceptionnelle de la Maison Masséna
Start: 2022-09-17T14:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Ancien presbytère dit Maison de Masséna

Exceptional opening of the garden of the former presbytery, or Maison Masséna.

Samedi 17 septembre 2022, 14h30Passé

Ville de Bagneux

You can discover the north side of the church Saint-hermeland, intact since the Middle Ages and usually inaccessible to the public; the sacristy of the early seventeenth century and its roof redone identically during the restoration of 2018; the remains of the castle of the Tuileries, burned in 1871 and demolished in 1882, recovered by the carrier Girandier, one of the owners of the house.

À propos du lieu

Ancien presbytère dit Maison de Masséna

10 place de la République 92220 Bagneux

Hauts-de-Seine
Île-de-France

Built in 1760 by François de Chabannes de Rhodes, theologian and parish priest of Bagneux, this magnificent presbytery, which became a national property in 1793, was bought in 1808 by the General of the Empire André Masséna who arranged it to install his mistress Eugénie Renique, dancer at the Opera. Masséna adds a wing to the original building, a boudoir that will host a fashionable Salon. The room is decorated with woodwork painted with motifs inspired by ancient Roman frescoes, as well as the portrait of the young woman. These woodworks were inscribed in the Inventory of Historical Monuments in 1990, with the fireplace and the staircase. In 1816, M. Filastre, parish priest, bought the property from Mme Renique. The house temporarily became a presbytery again. The covered terrace wings were added in 1862\. In 1900, the new owner, Girandier, master carrier, modified the facade on the garden and installed there vestiges coming from the castle of the Tuileries, which he completed identi