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Lot Essay
Georges Jacob, mâitre in 1765.
The 'marque au feu N' is that of the château de Neuilly. Originally built in 1751 for Marc-Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy, comte d'Argenson (1696-1764), Neuilly subsequently belonged to Talleyrand and Joachim Murat, one of Napoleon's most distinguished generals who married Napoleon's youngest sister Caroline. When Murat was made King of Naples in 1808, Neuilly, together with its contents passed to his sister-in-law Pauline, Princesse Borghese. In 1818 the Duc d'Orléans, later Louis-Phillipe of France (1773-1850), bought the château and commissioned the architect Pierre Fontaine to refurbish it.
The château was partly destroyed in 1848.
The 'marque au feu N' is that of the château de Neuilly. Originally built in 1751 for Marc-Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy, comte d'Argenson (1696-1764), Neuilly subsequently belonged to Talleyrand and Joachim Murat, one of Napoleon's most distinguished generals who married Napoleon's youngest sister Caroline. When Murat was made King of Naples in 1808, Neuilly, together with its contents passed to his sister-in-law Pauline, Princesse Borghese. In 1818 the Duc d'Orléans, later Louis-Phillipe of France (1773-1850), bought the château and commissioned the architect Pierre Fontaine to refurbish it.
The château was partly destroyed in 1848.