Technical Information
Year of Construction 1727
Labels
- Part of 'Inventaire Des Monuments Historiques'
Area 85.0 m²
Garden Area 5000.0 m²
Visit this Property
PERSONAL TOUR: Friday and Saturday from 14h to 17h.
- Full admission fee : 3 €
- Reduced admission fee: € 2 (children + 7 years, students, teachers, unemployed)
- Free (children – 7 years, students of history and history of art, lecturers)
GUIDED TOUR – HERMITAGE SPEAKER : by appointment,
(10 to 30 people.) Daily, except Fridays and Saturdays from 14h to 17h
- Hermitage: 8 € / pers. (± 1h15)
- Hermitage + Charonne (village / church / cemetery): 11 € / pers. (± 2 h)
- Hermitage + Charonne + snack or drink: 17 € / pers. (± 3 h)
The Hermitage is closed to the public from the Christmas holidays to early March and the month of August (except booked guided tours)
Tel. : 01 40 24 15 95
Rent this Property
The Hermitage’s three living rooms can receive up to 60 people standing and 30 seated for cocktail parties, receptions, workshops …
Rent this PropertyL’ermitage is a folly dating from the early eighteenth century which was located in the Bagnolet park of which it is the last remaining vestige.
This unique Parisian folly has exceptional wall paintings: ‘grisailles’ from 1727 and a living room in the Greek style of 1761.
Location
Historical
The Hermitage Pavilion, built in 1727, depended on the area of Bagnolet, owned by the Duchess of Orleans, legitimate daughter of Louis XIV and wife of the regent Philippe d’Orleans.
Initially, a simple place of leisure, the folly became at the end of the eighteenth century a comfortable dwelling house with a mansard upper floor.
The different owners of the Hermitage left their marks: the Duchess of Orleans, her sons and grand-sons; the Baron de Batz, a flamboyant character of the Revolution who owed his fame to the royalist conspiracies he organized; Francis Pomerel,’confectioner to HRH Duchess of Berry’…
Purchased by the Public Assistance in 1887, the Hermitage became a civil servants residence before being decommissioned in 1978. The building is open to the public since 2005.
Specificities
It is now the only Regency style folly in Paris.
Its wall paintings are exceptional
3 grisailles by Jean Valade (School of Coypel) are originals (1727) and unique in Paris,
A neo-classical living room composed by Henry Piètre, architect of the family of Orleans (1761) was constructed for the mistress of Louis Philippe d’Orleans, grandson of the Duchess.
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