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The 'Château de Bagatelle' is a small château in the Bois de Boulogne in the XVIe arrondissement of Paris. There is also a Château de Bagatelle located near Abbeville in northern France.''

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History

The château was initially built as a small hunting lodge built for the Maréchal d'Estrées in 1720. In 1775, the Comte d'Artois, Louis XVI's brother, purchased the property. The Comte soon had the existing house torn down with plans to rebuild. Famously, Marie-Antoinette wagered against the Comte, her brother-in-law, that the new château could not be completed within three months. The Comte engaged the neoclassical architect François-Joseph Bélanger to design the building that remains in the park today. The Comte won his bet, completing the house in sixty-three days. It is estimated that the project, which came to include manicured gardens, cost over two million livres.
In the Bagatelle Gardens, created by Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier, the Commissioner of Gardens for the city of Paris, around the Chateau de Bagatelle is the site of the annual ''Concours international de roses nouvelles de Bagatelle'', an international competition for new roses run by the City of Paris in June of each year.

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★ Parc & Château de Bagatelle, Paris

★ Château de Bagatelle