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The Pavillon du Mail
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Summary
Foreword
The Origins of the Château de Saint-Cloud (1577-1658)
Monsieur, Duc d'Orléans and the Trianon de Saint-Cloud (1658-1701)
The Pavillon du Mail
The Baron de Breteuil and the Pavillon de Breteuil
The Pavillon d'Italie and Napoléon Bonaparte
The Restoration
The Residence of Princesse Mathilde
The 'siège de Paris' (1870) and the Convention of the Metre
The BIPM from 1875 to the Present Day
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During the regency of Philippe d'Orléans from 1715 to 1723 the Trianon became a hermitage. It took the name of Pavillon du Mail during the time of Louis d'Orléans (1703-1752), son of Philippe d'Orléans and grandson of Monsieur. In 1743 it was modified by Louis d'Orléans for the marriage of his son Louis-Philippe d'Orléans (1725-1785), the Duc de Chartres, to Princess Louise-Henrietta de Bourbon-Conti. The Pavillon was then apparently given by Louis to the Abbé de Breteuil, his chancellor, as an official residence.