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35-480: The Hôtel Lambert ( French: [otɛl lɑ̃bɛːʁ] ) is an hôtel particulier , a grand mansion townhouse , built between 1640 and 1644 on the Quai Anjou on the eastern tip of the Île Saint-Louis , in the 4th arrondissement of Paris . In the 19th century, the name Hôtel Lambert also came to designate a political faction of Polish exiles associated with Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski , who had purchased

70-404: A James Bond villa". Former tenant Michèle Morgan suggested that super-rich clients wanting a tailor-made luxury modern residence should consider a larger site on the outskirts of Paris rather than a cramped position limited on all sides by the river Seine and listed monuments. However, Alain-Charles Perrot, the architect in charge of the project, suggested that there was an element of racism in

105-838: A large living space, often with servants' quarters. The small footprint of the townhouse allows it to be within walking or mass-transit distance of business and industrial areas of the city, yet luxurious enough for wealthy residents of the city. Townhouses are expensive where detached single-family houses are uncommon, such as in New York City , Chicago , Boston , Philadelphia , Montreal , Washington, D.C. , and San Francisco . Rowhouses are similar and consist of several adjacent, uniform units originally found in older, pre-automobile urban areas such as Baltimore , Philadelphia, Richmond, Virginia , Charleston, South Carolina , Savannah, Georgia and New Orleans , but now found in lower-cost housing developments in suburbs as well. A rowhouse

140-580: A noble or wealthy family, who would own one or more country houses in which they lived for much of the year. From the 18th century, landowners and their servants would move to a townhouse during the social season (when major balls took place). In the United Kingdom, most townhouses are terraced . Only a small minority of them, generally the largest, were detached, but even aristocrats whose country houses had grounds of hundreds or thousands of acres often lived in terraced houses in town. For example,

175-618: A political think tank and a discussion club, the political faction also worked on the preservation and promotion of Polish culture. An Historical and Literary Society began in 1832 and the idea of a Polish library , which exists to this day just along the Quai d'Orleans nearby, was conceived in the Hôtel Lambert in 1838. Plans laid for two schools teaching Polish (one for girls, one for boys) and were established in Batignolles . There

210-511: A record in Asia, and The Beverly Hills , which consists of multiple rows of townhouses with some units as large as 11,000 square feet (1,000 m ). Commonly in the suburbs of major cities, an old house on a large block of land is demolished and replaced by a short row of townhouses, built 'end on' to the street for added privacy. Henryk Dembi%C5%84ski Henryk Dembiński ( Hungarian : Dembinszky Henrik ; 16 January 1791 – 13 July 1864)

245-499: A series of ceiling frescoes by Eustache Le Sueur was completely destroyed, and another series of frescoes by Charles Le Brun in the Gallery of Hercules was heavily damaged by smoke and water. The restoration and renovation took a further three years. The restoration by Al Thani eventually cost €120m (£100m); the restored house showcasing a collection of French art and decorative works of the highest quality. These were sent to auction in

280-418: A series of sales in 2022. In 2022, the house was sold to French telecom billionaire and art collector Xavier Niel for more than €200 million ($ 226 million) to be reportedly used as the headquarters for Niel’s cultural foundation. 48°51′03″N 2°21′34″E  /  48.85083°N 2.35944°E  / 48.85083; 2.35944 Townhouse Historically, a townhouse was the city residence of

315-449: Is where there is a continuous roof and foundation, and a single wall divides adjacent townhouses, but some have a double wall with inches-wide air space in between on a common foundation. A rowhouse will generally be smaller and less luxurious than a dwelling called a townhouse. The name townhouse or townhome was later used to describe non-uniform units in suburban areas that are designed to mimic detached or semi-detached homes. Today,

350-490: The Battle of Temesvár (where he was commander until the arrival of Józef Bem ) and Kossuth's resignation, he fled to Turkey , where he (together with many other prominent Polish officers) entered the service of sultan Mahmud II . However, in 1850 he returned to Paris , where he died. This biographical article related to the military of Poland is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about

385-755: The Congress Poland . In the Polish November Uprising of 1830, he was a successful leader of the Polish forces. In 1831, after his victorious campaign in Lithuania, he was promoted to generał dywizji and for a brief period became the Polish Commander-in-Chief. He took part in the battles of Dębe Wielkie and Ostrołęka . After the fall of the revolution in 1833 he emigrated to France , where he became one of

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420-568: The Duke of Norfolk owned Arundel Castle in the country, while his London house, Norfolk House , was a terraced house in St James's Square over 100 feet (30 m) wide. In the United States and Canada, a townhouse has two connotations. The older predates the automobile and denotes a house on a small footprint in a city, but because of its multiple floors (sometimes six or more), it has

455-594: The "Polish question" alive in European politics, by continually keeping the Polish cause on the agenda. It also served as a safe harbour for Polish emigés and royalists, exiled from their country after the unsuccessful uprising against Russia. Among other notable politicians who took part in the Hôtel Lambert's activities were Władysław Czartoryski , son of Adam, Józef Bem , Henryk Dembiński , Karol Kniaziewicz , Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz , Władysław Stanisław Zamoyski , Władysław Ostrowski and Leon Kaplinski . Initially

490-510: The 2013 fire described below) and the small Cabinet des Muses, with five canvases by Le Sueur that were purchased for the royal collection (now in the Louvre ) and the earlier ensemble, the Cabinet de l'Amour, which in its original configuration featured an alcove for a canopied bed upon which the lady of the house would receive visitors, according to the custom of the day. Significantly the alcove

525-574: The Bal Oriental, with guests such as Jacqueline de Ribes , Guy de Rothschild , Salvador Dalí , Brigitte Bardot , Dolores Guinness , and Margrethe II of Denmark . In 1975, the Czartoryski heirs sold the Hôtel Lambert to Baron Guy de Rothschild , whose wife, Marie-Hélène de Rothschild , was a close friend of de Redé; they used it as their Paris residence. In September 2007, the Hôtel Lambert

560-538: The Hôtel Lambert. The house, on an irregular site at the tip of the Île Saint-Louis in the heart of Paris, was designed by architect Louis Le Vau . It was built between 1640 and 1644, originally for the financier Jean-Baptiste Lambert (d. 1644) and continued by his younger brother Nicolas Lambert, later president of the Chambre des Comptes . For Nicolas Lambert, the interiors were decorated by Charles Le Brun , François Perrier , and Eustache Le Sueur , producing one of

595-435: The epoch, including Alexandre Walewski , Charles Forbes René de Montalembert , Frédéric Chopin , Zygmunt Krasiński , Alphonse de Lamartine , George Sand , Honoré de Balzac , Hector Berlioz , Franz Liszt , Eugène Delacroix , and Adam Mickiewicz . In fact, Chopin's "La Polonaise" was composed expressly for the Polish ball held there every year. The Hôtel Lambert was discreetly split into several luxurious apartments. It

630-496: The finest, most-innovative, and iconographically coherent examples of mid-17th-century domestic architecture and decorative painting in France. The entrance gives onto the central square courtyard, around which the hôtel was built. A wing extends to the right at the rear, embracing a walled garden. At the same time, Louis Le Vau constructed a residence for himself adjacent to the Hôtel Lambert. He lived there between 1642 and 1650. It

665-581: The houses on the property are owned by the individual owners. In population-dense Asian cities dominated by high-rise residential apartment blocks, such as Hong Kong , townhouses in private housing developments remain almost exclusively populated by the very wealthy due to the rarity and relatively large sizes of the units. Prominent examples in Hong Kong include Severn 8, in which a 5,067-square-foot (470.7 m ) townhouse sold for HK$ 285 million (US$ 37 million) in 2008, or HK$ 57,000 (US$ 7,400) per square foot,

700-706: The liberal aristocratic faction of the Great Emigration from Poland, following the collapse of the November Uprising of 1830–1831. A political group formed around Adam Czartoryski, and his palatial residence in central Paris, surrounded by the natural 'moat' of the river Seine , lent its name to his political faction. The political beliefs of the Hôtel Lambert faction were derived from the 3 May Constitution , which its members had supported. The Hôtel Lambert played an important role in keeping

735-473: The objections. After several years of wrangling, a truce was overseen by the Ministry of Culture and Paris City Hall, and the renovation was given the go-ahead under the supervision of Bâtiments de France, which safeguards historic monuments. Work began in 2010. On 10 July 2013 a portion of the building was severely damaged by a fire which started in the roof during renovation work. The Cabinet des Bains with

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770-607: The prominent politicians of the Hôtel Lambert , a group of supporters of Adam Jerzy Czartoryski . In the Hungarian revolution of 1848 he was appointed the commanding officer of the Northern Army. After his successes he was soon promoted and Lajos Kossuth appointed him the Hungarian commander-in-chief. He was hampered by the jealousy of Artúr Görgey and after the defeat at the Battle of Kápolna , he resigned. After

805-748: The street or at least from the outside. They can be side by side in a row of three or more, in which case they are sometimes referred to as rowhouses . A townhouse in a group of two could be referred to as a townhouse, but in Canada and the US, it is typically called a semi-detached home and in some areas of western Canada, a half-duplex. In Canada, single-family dwellings, be they any type, such as single-family detached homes, apartments, mobile homes, or townhouses, for example, are split into two categories of ownership: Condominium townhouses, just like condominium apartments, are often referred to as condos , thus referring to

840-401: The subject of legal action brought by French conservationists. The scheme included plans to install air-conditioning, elevators , an underground car park with an exit through the notable curved garden wall, and a number of security measures. This involved digging under the garden and raising the 17th-century garden wall 80 cm. One heritage architect claimed the plans had "the aesthetics of

875-435: The term townhouse is used to describe units mimicking a detached home that are attached in a multi-unit complex. The distinction between living units called apartments and those called townhouses is that townhouses usually consist of multiple floors and have their own outside door as opposed to having only one level and/or having access via an interior corridor hallway or via an exterior balcony-style walkway (more common in

910-417: The tradition of the salon . The Dupins were ancestors of writer George Sand , who, because of her relationship with the Polish composer Chopin , was also a frequent guest of the 19th-century Polish owners of the property. In 1843, the hôtel particulier was bought by Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski , member of the powerful family of Polish magnates . He and his brother, Konstanty Adam , were leaders of

945-518: The type of ownership rather than to the type of dwelling. Since apartment-style condos are the most common, when someone refers to a condo , many erroneously assume that it must be an apartment-style dwelling and that only apartment-style dwellings can be condos. All types of dwellings can be condos, and this is therefore true of townhouses. A brownstone townhouse is a particular variety found in New York. In Asia, Australia, South Africa and Zimbabwe,

980-492: The usage of the term follows the North American sense. Townhouses are generally found in complexes. Large complexes often have high security, resort facilities such as swimming pools, gyms, parks and playground equipment. Typically, a townhouse has a strata title ; i.e., a type of title where the common property (landscaped area, public corridors, building structure, etc.) is owned by a corporation of individual owners and

1015-487: The warmer climates). Another distinction is that in most areas of the US outside of the very largest cities, apartment refers to rental housing, and townhouse typically refers to an individually owned dwelling, with no other unit beneath or above although the term townhouse-style (rental) apartment is also heard for bi-level apartments. Townhouses can also be "stacked". Such homes have multiple units vertically (typically two), normally each with its own private entrance from

1050-774: Was a Polish engineer, traveler and general. Dembiński was born in Strzałków, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship . In 1809 he entered the Polish army of the Duchy of Warsaw and took part in most of the Napoleonic campaigns in the East. Among others, he took part in the Battle of Leipzig in 1813. After the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte he remained in Poland and became one of the members of the Sejm of

1085-666: Was eliminated about 1703. All the ensembles featured themes of love and marriage. However, the paintings have since been dispersed. In the 1740s, the Marquise du Châtelet and Voltaire , her lover, used the Hôtel Lambert as their Paris residence when not at her country estate in Cirey . The marquise was famed for her salon there. Later, the Marquis du Châtelet sold the Lambert to Claude Dupin and his wife Louise-Marie Dupin, who continued

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1120-500: Was once the home of actress Michèle Morgan , Mona von Bismarck , and of Alexis von Rosenberg, Baron de Redé , who rented the ground floor from 1947 until his death. De Redé entertained his lover Arturo Lopez-Willshaw (1900–1962), who continued to maintain a formal residence with wife Patricia in Neuilly . Redé and Lopez-Willshaw's dinner parties and balls were at the center of le tout Paris . In 1969 de Redé staged his most famous ball,

1155-606: Was sold by the Rothschilds to Prince Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Thani , brother of the Emir of Qatar for the purported sum of 80 million euros ($ 111 million). A UNESCO World Heritage-listed building, it was in need of restoration, as parts of its wooden structure were rotting, staircases were sagging, and paint was cracked and discoloured. The Prince's plan for a comprehensive overhaul of the building sparked controversy and became

1190-566: Was support for numerous commercial enterprises, especially in the fields of publication and printing. Over time, it became one of the most important hubs of Polish culture in the world, especially after the January Uprising , when Polish language and culture became heavily persecuted during the enforced Russification in the Russian Partition of Poland itself. The Hôtel Lambert drew some renowned politicians and artists of

1225-487: Was where all of his children were born and his mother died. After the architect's own death in 1670, his hôtel was bought by the La Haye family, who owned the other residence as well. Both buildings were then joined and their façades combined. Both painters worked on the internal decoration for almost five years, producing the gallant allegories of Le Brun's grand Galerie d'Hercule (still in situ , but heavily damaged in

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