1923. Le Domaine de Sceaux. Aux origines d’une renaissance – Sceaux (France)

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1923. Le Domaine de Sceaux. Aux origines d’une renaissance – Sceaux (France)

When the Princess of Cystria Faucigny-Lucinge sold her property in Sceaux, in 1923, it was threatened by property developers and escalating urban planning. Its integration within the public domain enabled the site to escape such fate and to benefit from restoration worthy of its illustrious past. For its new owner, the Seine Department, it was a delicate enterprise, for it equally involved preserving one of the last remaining major aristocratic estates in the Île-de-France region, satisfying the development of Paris’s southern outskirts and offering a vast public area for Paris-based residents.
The general public is unfamiliar with the history of the Domaine de Sceaux from 1850 to 1950. After the French Revolution, the property went through several phases of decline and renewal. Today’s developments are therefore inspired by the former grounds and listed 17th-century elements, whilst integrating 19th-century decorative features introduced by the Dukes of Trévise.
The exhibition will focus on the political and social context in which the Seine Department acquired the estate. What were the reasons, the stakeholders, the deployed resources? We must take a step back to the mid-19th century to fully understand the site’s evolution up to the 1950s.

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