Château de Bagatelle

It is set on 59 acres of grounds in French landscape style within the Bois de Boulogne, which is located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.

The Comte won his bet by completing the house (the only residence ever designed and built expressly for him) in sixty-three days, from September 1777.

The master bedroom was fitted up in the manner of a military tent,[2] and Hubert Robert executed a set of six Italianate landscapes for the bathroom.

The table game was dubbed "bagatelle" by the Count and shortly after swept through France, evolving into various forms which eventually culminated in the modern pinball machine.

The formal garden spaces surrounding the château, which was linked to its dependencies by tunnels, was expanded with a surrounding park in the naturalistic English landscape style by the Scottish garden-designer Thomas Blaikie, and dotted with sham ruins, an obelisk, a pagoda, primitive hermits' huts and grottoes.

[10] The Bagatelle gardens, created by Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier, the Commissioner of Gardens for the city of Paris, are the site of the annual Concours international de roses nouvelles de Bagatelle, an international competition for new roses run by the City of Paris in June of each year.

[11] Though the Revolutionary sales emptied the house, at Bagatelle in Sir John Murray-Scott's time were replicas of the bronze vases at Versailles.