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26-598: It is home to many of the city's wealthiest residents, hence its informal grouping in the Neuilly-Auteuil-Passy area. Many embassies are based in Passy. The earliest mentions of Passy appears in the mention of a lease in villenage in 1250 by members of the Congregation of France .{}} The Château de Passy (no longer existing) had been built in 1381, later renamed to Château de Boulainvilliers in 1747. During

52-466: A canon at St. Genevieve in 1678. Astronomer and naval geographer, Alexandre Guy Pingré was made librarian of St. Geneviève and built an observatory at the Abbey. Around 1740, Louis, Duke of Orléans decided to retire to the Abbey of St Genevieve. From then on, he became known as Louis le Génovéfain . By the eighteenth century the order had 107 monasteries and over 1300 canons, who primarily cared for

78-541: A diverse grouping of avant-garde artistes (painters, sculptors and poets), including several who previously held meetings in 1910 at the rue Visconti studio of Henri Le Fauconnier . Their first diner presided over by neo-symbolist Paul Fort was held at the house of Balzac , rue Raynouard, in the presence of Guillaume Apollinaire , Raymond Duchamp-Villon , Marie Laurencin , Henri Le Fauconnier, Fernand Léger , André Mare , Jean Metzinger , Francis Picabia , Henry Valensi, and Jacques Villon . Albert Gleizes chose Passy as

104-562: A linen rochet , and a black cloak for outside the abbey. The administration of parishes was an essential part of the Genovéfains' work. One of the earliest to come under their care was Saint-Étienne-du-Mont , adjacent to St. Genevieve. In 1683 the parish church of Saint-Medard in the Faubourg Saint-Marcel was placed under the jurisdiction of the abbot of the nearby abbey. The antiquary Richard Augustine Hay became

130-729: A museum in France. This led to the recovery of the stolen paintings in a small villa in Corsica in December 1990. Though originally a showcase for pieces from the First Empire , the nature of the museum's collection began to change with two major donations. In 1957, Victorine Donop de Monchy gave the museum an important collection of Impressionist works that had belonged to her father, Doctor Georges de Bellio, physician to Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley and Renoir, and an early supporter of

156-526: A typeface known as "le Franklin". He also printed a 1782 treatise by Pierre-André Gargaz titled A Project of Universal and Perpetual Peace , which laid out a vision for maintaining a permanent peace in Europe . It proposed a central governing council composed of representatives of all the nations of Europe to arbitrate international disputes. He also worked on his scientific projects at a laboratory he shared with others, which had been installed by Louis XV in

182-595: Is the burial place for many well-known persons including American silent film star Pearl White , the painters Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot , and composer Claude Debussy . Honoré de Balzac lived in Passy for over six years, and his house is now a museum ( Maison de Balzac ). The apartment in which Marlon Brando trysts with Maria Schneider in Bernardo Bertolucci 's 1972 film Last Tango in Paris

208-837: Is the result of a donation in 1966 by Michel Monet , Claude's second son and only heir. Originally a hunting lodge for the Duke of Valmy, the building at the edge of the Bois de Boulogne was purchased in 1882 by Jules Marmottan, who later left it to his son, Paul Marmottan. The latter moved into the lodge and, with an interest in the Napoleonic era, he expanded his father's collection of paintings, furniture and bronzes. Marmottan bequeathed his home and collection, as well as his library (the Bibliothèque Marmottan in Boulogne), to

234-481: The Abbey of St Genevieve , the motherhouse of the congregation. The congregation was founded by Cardinal de La Rochefoucauld , commendatory abbot of St Genevieve at the behest of Louis XIII to reform the monastic communities in France, starting with those closest to Paris. In April 1622 La Rochefoucauld was named papal commissioner for the reform of the old religious orders in France. He called Charles Faure from

260-578: The Abbey of St. Vincent in Senlis , where Faure had already initiated the formal observance of the Rule of St. Augustine . Faure was elected Prior General of the new congregation, a position he held until his death in 1644. Although the motherhouse was St. Genevieve, the congregation held its General Chapter at St. Vincent every three years, to honor its role in the reform of the canonical life in France. The religious habit that they wore were white, covered by

286-521: The Académie des Beaux-Arts . The Académie opened up the house and collection as the Musée Marmottan in 1934. On October 27, 1985, during daylight hours, five masked gunmen with pistols threatening security and visitors entered the museum and stole nine paintings from the collection. Among them were Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant) by Claude Monet , the painting from which

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312-620: The American Revolutionary War , when he represented American interests and sought French support for American independence. Franklin established a small printing press in his lodgings to print pamphlets and other material as part of his mandate to maintain French support for the revolution. He called it the Passy Press. Among his printing projects, he produced comics he called Bagatelles and passports. He developed

338-600: The Château de la Muette . When Franklin returned to America, the new American Ambassador to France, Thomas Jefferson , wrote: "When he left Passy, it seemed as if the village had lost its patriarch." To this day, a street in Passy bears the name Rue Benjamin Franklin. After the French Revolution , Passy became a commune of Seine . The population was 2,400 in 1836, 4,545 in 1841, but larger in summer. In 1861

364-709: The Impressionism movement took its name. Aside from that also stolen were Camille Monet and Cousin on the Beach at Trouville , Portrait of Jean Monet, Portrait of Poly, Fisherman of Belle-Isle and Field of Tulips in Holland also by Monet, Bather Sitting on a Rock and Portrait of Monet by Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Young Woman at the Ball by Berthe Morisot , and Portrait of Monet by Seiichi Naruse . The stolen paintings were valued at $ 12 million. A tip-off led to

390-666: The Walters Art Museum , San Diego Museum of Art and Portland Museum of Art in 1998–1999. The museum also contains works by Berthe Morisot , Edgar Degas , Édouard Manet , Alfred Sisley , Camille Pissarro , Paul Gauguin , Paul Signac , Pierre-Auguste Renoir , and others. It also houses the Wildenstein Collection of illuminated manuscripts and the Jules and Paul Marmottan collection of Napoleonic era art and furniture. Jacque Carlu, then curator of

416-474: The 14th century, King Charles V of France authorized Passy's inhabitants to enclose walls around their fields, and a century later in 1416, Passy became a Lordship . In 1658, hot mineral springs were discovered near what is now Rue des Eaux where spa facilities were developed. This attracted Parisian society and English visitors, some of whom made the area, which combined attractive countryside with both modest houses and fine residences, their winter retreat, as it

442-470: The Impressionist movement. In 1966, Claude Monet's second son, Michel Monet , left the museum his own collection of his father's work, thus creating the world's largest collection of Monet paintings. In 1985, Nelly Duhem, adopted daughter of the painter Henri Duhem , donated his large collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works (which included several Monets) to the museum. Since 1975

468-595: The arrest in Japan of a yakuza gangster named Shuinichi Fujikuma who had spent time in French prison for trafficking heroin and was sentenced for five years. There he met Philippe Jamin and Youssef Khimoun who were part of an art syndicate. Fujikuma, Jamin and Khimoun planned the Marmottan theft. In Fujikuma's house, police found a catalog with all the stolen paintings from the museum circled. Also found were two paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot stolen in 1984 from

494-700: The beginning of the French Revolution, when it became the Panthéon . The abbey later became the Lycée Henri-IV . Mus%C3%A9e Marmottan Monet Musée Marmottan Monet (English: Marmottan Museum of Monet ) is an art museum in Paris , France, dedicated to artist Claude Monet . The collection features over three hundred Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings by Claude Monet, including his 1872 Impression, Sunrise . The museum's fame

520-475: The museum has organized two exhibitions annually dedicated to an individual or collections, including Toulouse-Lautrec in 1976, Boilly in 1984, Daumier in 1989, Goya in 1990, Boldini in 1991 and Pissarro in 2017. The museum's paintings from late in the career of Claude Monet were exhibited at the New Orleans Museum of Art and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in 1995. The works later traveled to

546-549: The museum, built a special exhibition space for the Monet collection in a lower level of the museum. Inspired by the hall designed for Monet's Water Lilies murals in the Musée de l'Orangerie , the large, open room allows visitors to see a progression of Monet's work, as well as to view his canvases both up close and from afar. One of the most notable pieces in the museum is Monet's Impression, Sunrise (Impression, Soleil Levant) ,

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572-616: The population was 11,431. Passy's population was 17,594 when it was absorbed into Paris along with several other communities in 1860. The painting Albert Gleizes painting Les ponts de Paris (Passy), The Bridges of Paris (Passy) , housed in the collection of the Museum Moderner Kunst ( mumok ), Vienna, refers to the spirit of solidarity among the newly formed "Artists of Passy", during a time when factions had begun to develop within Cubism . Les Artistes de Passy consisted of

598-407: The sick in their hospitals and almshouses . The congregation was suppressed during the French Revolution. In 1744 King Louis XV vowed that if he recovered from his illness he would replace the dilapidated abbey church of St Genevieve with a building worthy of the patron saint of Paris. Work proceeded slowly and the re-modelled abbey church of St. Genevieve was finally completed in 1790, shortly after

624-880: The subject of this painting. Passy is home to the Musée Marmottan Monet , housed in the Château de la Muette , and the Jardin du Ranelagh park. It is served by the Ranelagh metro station . There is now a rue Benjamin Franklin and a square de Yorktown near the Trocadéro . A lively street in the area is Rue de Passy, which goes from La Muette to the Place de Costa Rica just behind the Trocadéro. It has boutiques and chain stores along its length. The Cimetière de Passy , located at 2, rue du Commandant Schœlsing,

650-466: Was located between Paris and the Chateau de Versailles . It was dependent on the parish of Auteuil until 1761. Anne Gabriel Henri Bernard de Boulainvilliers was the last lord of Passy, after he sold it to escape the guillotine. The Hôtel de Valentinois (at that time the property of Monsieur de Chaumont) in Passy was the home of Benjamin Franklin during the nine years that he lived in France during

676-511: Was located in Passy. 48°51′25.60″N 2°17′02.89″E  /  48.8571111°N 2.2841361°E  / 48.8571111; 2.2841361 Congregation of France The Congregation of France (French: Labaye de Sainte Genevieve et la Congregation de France lit: The Abbey of Sainte Genevieve and the Congregation of France) was a congregation of houses of canons regular in France.. Its members were called Génovéfains after

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