Parc de Bécon

The Parc de Bécon holds a collection of structures that were never meant to remain in one place. Scattered throughout the grounds are two ornate buildings, the Pavillon des Indes and the Pavillon de Suède-Norvège, which were originally constructed as temporary exhibition halls for the Universal Exhibition of eighteen seventy-eight in Paris. After the event concluded, these portable masterpieces were relocated to this site by Prince Georges Bibesco Stirbey, an art enthusiast who owned the estate. The Pavillon des Indes, designed by an English architect for the Prince of Wales, was famously repurposed as a private studio for the painter Georges Achille-Fould.