Filoli Estate

Northern California Architectural Treasures of WILLIS POLK

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Ernest Sanson’s Carolands Château built for Francis Carolan in Hillsborough, California

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🇫🇷💟🇺🇸 Day 10: Paris, Louvre Museum.

💎🇫🇷💎The French Crown Jewels -Apollo Gallery, Louvre. The Royal & Imperial Crowns and jewelry are always a mandatory stop on every visit to Louvre Museum for me. Seen here is the glittering diamond encrusted Coronation Crown of King Louis XV, the only extant diadem of the Kings of France. Along with several of the largest diamonds of the royal collection are the necklaces, crowns and tiaras of Empress Josephine. Marie-Louise & Eugenie. Missing this year from the case was Coronation Crown of the last French Empress Eugenie, perhaps in restoration? 💎🇫🇷💎

Vive-la-france!!🇫🇷

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Empress Joséphine’s Sapphire and Diamond Parure, sold by Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland, to King Louis Philippe of the French in 1821.

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What they took:

They dropped this ↓ and damaged it:

Stolen treasures, a crown dropped as thieves fled - and serious questions for Louvre security

The most spectacular Louvre robbery since the Mona Lisa in 1911 proves the vulnerability of French museums, writes Hugh Schofield.

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Thieves steal 'priceless' jewels from Louvre in Paris and flee on motorbikes | CBC News

Thieves broke into Paris's Louvre museum through a window on Sunday, stealing "priceless" items of jewelry before escaping on motorbikes, th

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Early morning frost on the statues of Versailles (photo taken this morning)

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Map of Versailles in 1714

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The Fontaine Saint-Sulpice, Paris

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The organ within the Royal Chapel at Versailles.

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🎬 🇺🇸🏰

America's Castles: "BILTMORE ESTATE"

📺 America's Castles TV show episode:

George Vanderbilt wanted to build Biltmore Estate as his own French Château in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. To execute his dreams he chose the prominent American architect, Richard Morris Hunt, educated at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Landscape-architect, Frederick Law Olmsted who created NYC's Central Park & San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, was in charge of the 120,000 acres of formal gardens,, pristine forest and woodlands.

The video follows the history of the Gilded Age ~ Beaux-Arts Château from its construction in 1895 through its self sustainability usage today. 🇺🇸🇫🇷

💻 BILTMOREESTATE.org

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Clip of the Week: After her disastrous relationship with Peter DeVilbis, Fallon and Jeff are getting closer, and he asks her to go skiing with him in this scene from episode 4x20, “The Voice”, part 1. 

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Christopher Plummer as Captain von Trapp THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965)

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The See-Saw, Jean-Honore Fragonard, 1750-55

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Newmar - Hillsborough,CA after being renamed “La Dolphine”

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Filoli near San Francisco

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Vaux le Vicomte in the morning mist.