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.
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 -
Entrance of Palais Ficquelmont, St-Petersburg -
Interior of Palais Ficquelmont, St-Petersburg -
View of Palais Ficquelmont, Venice -
Facade of Palais Ficquelmont, Venice -
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