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Le château en bref
Beaulieu Estate is a Neoclassical manor house in the La Côte wine-growing region, located in the municipality of Gilly (canton of Vaud), with outbuildings in Rolle. It forms part of the extensive estate assembled from 1808 by the Geneva banker Jean-Gabriel Eynard (1775–1863), who acquired an existing rural house there. The residence was built in stages from 1811: the entrepreneur-architect Jean-Pierre Noblet raised the main house, and a south wing was added on the lake side in 1827, based on plans attributed to the Italian-speaking Ticinese architect Luigi Bagutti; its southern façade is decorated with Serlian windows alternating with statues. The salons and the staircase well received painted decoration, often in grisaille, by Italian painters, and sculptures by Lorenzo Bartolini were made for the site. Anna Eynard-Lullin took part in laying out the large garden. Nearby, a former main house dating from around 1790 and outbuildings with Neo-Gothic decoration complete the estate, to which are added annexes for relatives, including the Petit Fleur d'Eau (1825), for Ioannis Kapodistrias, and the Grand Fleur d'Eau (1836), for the historian Charles Eynard. The whole is listed in the Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property.
