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3 unusual facts about château de Chantilly


Frank Hall Standish

The books passed to his son, Henri d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale and formed part of the collection which he bequeathed to the Institut de France along with the Château de Chantilly.

Marcel Aubert

He succeeded Vitry as chief curator in 1940 and was soon named senior curator of the National Museums, a post that he occupied until his retirement in 1955, as well as being curator of the Musée Rodin and the Institut de France's Musée Condé in the Chateau de Chantilly.

Whipped cream

The invention of crème Chantilly is often credited incorrectly, and without evidence, to Francois Vatel, maître d'hôtel at the Château de Chantilly in the mid-17th century.


400th anniversary of Romanov House

Among the celebrations organized around the world, the Romanov Celebration Gala takes place in Paris on October 5, 2013 in the Chateau of Chantilly.

Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale

By his will of the June 3, 1884, however, he had bequeathed to the Institute of France his Chantilly estate, including the Château de Chantilly, with all the art-collection he had collected there, to become a museum.

Jade Kindar-Martin

In the summer of 2004, Jade married fellow Cirque du Soleil performer and stunt woman Karine Mauffrey, high up in the air on a wire stretched over the grounds of the Château de Chantilly in Chantilly, France.

Khaliya Aga Khan

Prince Hussain (second son of His Highness the Aga Khan and Princess Salimah Aga Khan) and Princess Khaliya were married at the Chateau de Chantilly on 16 September 2006.

Musée Condé

The Musée Condé – in English, the Condé Museum – is a museum located inside the château de Chantilly in Chantilly, Oise, 40 km north of Paris.

Singerie

In France the most famous such rococo decor are Christophe Huet's Grande Singerie and Petite Singerie decors at the Château de Chantilly; in England the French painter Andieu de Clermont is also known for his singeries: the most famous decorates the ceiling of the Monkey Room at Monkey Island Hotel, located on Monkey Island in Bray-on-Thames, England.


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