Château de la Petite Roseraie

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The Château de la Petite Roseraie, in Châtenay-Malabry (Hauts-de-Seine), built in the seventeenth century, successively belonged to the Maréchal de Ségur, the Arouet family, Prince Francesco Borghese and the Count de Boigne, whose wife, the Countess d'Osmond, held a salon there that welcomed Germaine de Staël, Benjamin Constant, Madame Récamier and Chateaubriand among others. Voltaire reportedly claimed to have been born there rather than in Paris, a claim corroborated by the memoirs of the Countess de Boigne. Acquired in 1829 by the Parisian stockbroker Alexandre Roland-Gosselin, who considerably enlarged it, the estate saw his granddaughter have an orphanage for young girls built there between 1873 and 1875. The landscape designer Louis-Sulpice Varé redesigned the park in 1855, adding an orangery and a small children's house, which was converted into a chapel in 1909. The State acquired the estate in 1941 to install a physical education establishment, which became the CREPS; the château has been listed as a monument historique since 1946.