The Palais Ficquelmont (Ficquelmont palaces) are palatial residences which belonged to the counts de Ficquelmont, one of Lorraine's most illustrious aristocratic dynasty[1] that has spread across Europe as the Duchy merged into the Habsburg Empire then into the Kingdom of France and once again after the burst of the French Revolution.
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List of Palais Ficquelmont
editSeveral palaces bear the name of the comital family:
- Palais Ficquelmont in St. Petersburg[2][verification needed]
- Palais Ficquelmont in Prague[3][need quotation to verify]
Other palaces might bear Ficquelmont in their name but are not to be mistaken with the formally Ficquelmont palaces :
- Palais Mollard-Clary in Vienna is sometimes known as Palais Mollard-Clary-Ficquelmont as its grandest era was when the princess Elisabeth-Alexandrine Clary-und-Aldringen, born countess de Ficquelmont, inhabited it.[citation needed]
- Palais Kutuzov in St-Petersburg is sometimes known as Palais Kutuzov-Ficquelmont as it is the birthplace of countess Dolly von Tiesenhausen, who married count Charles-Louis de Ficquelmont, and because the couple inhabited it several times.[citation needed]
Pictures
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View of Palais Ficquelmont, St-Petersburg
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Entrance of Palais Ficquelmont, St-Petersburg
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Interior of Palais Ficquelmont, St-Petersburg
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View of Palais Ficquelmont, Venice
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Facade of Palais Ficquelmont, Venice
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View of Palais Ficquelmont, Venice
References
edit- ^ "The House of Ficquelmont is one of the oldest, noblest, most honoured family of the ancient Lorrainer Chivalry" in Poplimont, La Belgique héraldique, 1866, Brussels
- ^ "The St.Petersbourg's Ficquelmont Palace provided the setting of two of the most famous salon of the period (1830s), reigned over by Ficquelmont's wife (grand-daughter of Prince Kutuzov)" in Simon Dixon, Personality and Place in Russian Culture, Essays in Memory of Lindsey Hughes, 2010, History
- ^ idem