Throughout our history, kingmakers are legion.
Those who create kingdoms are rarer.
Henri d'Orléans, titled Duke of Aumale, son of Louis-Philippe I, the last king in France, raised on the ruins of the residence of the Condés, an extraordinary throne from where he reigned over beauty and the arts.
Many princes have since leaned on this “
castle of Sleeping Beauty
”, hoping to snatch one of the most beautiful jewels of French heritage from secular lethargy.
The latest was not the least generous.
His Highness the Aga Khan, whom a long family tradition links to the Chantilly racetrack, like Aladdin and his marvelous lamp, spent from 2005 to 2020 70 million euros to wake up the sleeping beauty.
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We owe to his generous patronage operation a multitude of restorations, Great Stables, painting gallery, small apartments, French flowerbeds, for the most visible.
Deprived of its donor, followed by the effects of…
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