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Origin and history

The Saint-Vigor Pavilion is a historic residence built in 1770 in Viroflay, Yvelines, by a student of architect Gabriel. This classical monument belonged to the family of Marie-Madeleine Mercier (née Bocquet), former nanny of Louis XV. The king anoblated his descendants, who took the name "Saint-Vigor" and settled in this property. Half a moon, now extinct, once allowed the evolution of the carriages.

In 1945 and 1946, the pavilion was added to the historic monuments and abandoned for about thirty years before being restored in 2004 by its new owners. During the Second World War, the Germans occupied the property and damaged the parquet floor of the salon, now replaced by that of the Glaces Gallery of the Palace of Versailles.

The central building, connected to two pavilions by colonnades, has a facade decorated with a doric peristyle. Part of the original park became the residence of the "Clos Saint-Vigor". Two poplars, planted in 1794 as "trees of freedom", mark the revolutionary history of the place.

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