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4 unusual facts about Trianon


Bernard de Jussieu

Singularly modest and retiring, he published very little, but in 1759 he arranged the plants in the royal garden of the Trianon in the Palace of Versailles, according to his own scheme of classification.

Bruckneudorf

After World War I, under the treaties of St. Germain and Trianon, German West Hungary was transferred to Austria (see History of Burgenland).

François-Émile de Lansac

The National Museum of the castles of Versailles and Trianon displays the Portrait équestre du maréchal de la Palisse of 1835.

Paulista Avenue

Paulista is home to a small native forest park, the Parque Siqueira Campos, commonly called Trianon, and to the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP - Museu de Arte de São Paulo).


Charles-François Lebœuf

Portrait of Mathieu Molé, chancellor of France (1584 - 1656) (1840), larger-than-life size standing statue, plaster, Versailles, Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon

Portrait of Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald, Duke of Tarente, Maréchal de l'Empire (1765 - 1840), larger-than-life size standing statue, marble, Versailles, Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon

Dick Jurgens

Jurgens held residencies at the Casino Ballroom on Catalina Island, the Elitch Gardens in Denver, the Aragon Ballroom and the Trianon Ballroom in Chicago, and other popular swing venues.

Henri Trianon

Henri Trianon (born 11 July 1811 in Paris – died 17 October 1896 ibid) was a French critic, librettist and translator of works by Homer and Plato, and operas by Weber and Mozart into French.

Liebing, Austria

Rendek was transferred to Austria in return for the town of Ólmod in 1923 subsequent to the Treaties of Saint-Germain and Trianon.

Louise Élisabeth de Croÿ

The Marquise has featured in several novels about the French Royal family, including Trianon and Madame Royale by Elena Maria Vidal, Flaunting, Extravagant Queen by Jean Plaidy and the Marie Antoinette romances by Alexandre Dumas, père.

René Sergent

In addition, he designed the headquarters for the Rolls-Royce Limited, a Parisian store for the Duveen brothers (1907–1908) in the form of a Petit Trianon at the rear of a marble courtyard at n° 20 place Vendôme which is now a bank headquarters, and the Duveen Gallery, a large building in the style of Ange-Jacques Gabriel at the corner of 5th Avenue and 56th street in New York City (1909–1910, demolished 1953).

Robert de Montesquiou

In his biography, Philippe Jullian proposes that Moberly and Jourdain's 'Adventure' in 1901 in the grounds of the Petit Trianon is explained by their stumbling into a rehearsal of one of Montesquiou's Tableaux Vivant, with his friends (one possibly transvestite) dressed in period costume.

Russ Morgan

A few of these engagements were at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles; Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, California; Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago; Aragon and Trianon, Chicago; Strand, Chicago; the Statler Hotel, New York; Orpheum, Los Angeles; Palladium, Hollywood; to name a few.

Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force

By December 1944, SHAEF had established itself in the Trianon Palace Hotel in Versailles, France.

The Colorado Springs School

The school purchased the Trianon property at 21 Broadmoor Avenue from John W. Metzger in the spring of 1967 after the number of students increased four-fold.

Trianon Ballrooms

The first and most prominent Trianon opened in 1922 in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, Designed by renowned theater architects Rapp & Rapp, it was owned and operated by William and Andrew Karzas, who opened the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago four years later.


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