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Le château en bref
The Château Thorenc, also known as the Château d'Oxford, stood at 38 boulevard d'Oxford and 12 avenue d'Annam, in the Terrefial district of Cannes. A first residence was built there around 1870 for the Duchess of Bedford; the property then passed to Sir Richard Atwood Glass in 1876, and later to the Duchess of Montrose and to Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel. Around 1930, the new owner Albert Neubauer had the château entirely rebuilt by the architects Louis Süe and Léon Le Bel, in an eclectic and regionalist style. The rebuilt edifice was a square two-storey château with wings, covered with terraces and organised around a large salon lit by a zenithal oculus; it included a polygonal winter garden, a vaulted dining room and a so-called "Venetian" salon adorned with marble and gold-ground paintings by the painter Jean-Gabriel Domergue. From 1937 to 1960, it was the residence of the Emperor of Annam, Bao Dai. The château was demolished in 1968 and replaced by an apartment building. The vast park that surrounded it, laid out notably by the landscape gardener Sergent in 1895 around a one-kilometre avenue planted with Aleppo pines, cedars and exotic species, has also disappeared.
