Le Plantier de Costebelle
Hyères, France
Exterior only
Visible from the street; the inside is private.
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Le Plantier de Costebelle is a neo-Palladian villa built beginning in 1857 by Baroness Hortense Pauline Husson de Prailly on the eastern slope of Mont des Oiseaux in Hyères, France. Originally named the "Villa des Palmiers," the house commands views over the Hyères roadstead, the Giens peninsula, and the islands of Porquerolles and Port-Cros. Initially a retreat for prominent ecclesiastics and literati, it gained particular renown following Queen Victoria's 1892 visit with Prince Henry of Battenberg. In 1896, French novelist and Académie française member Paul Bourget purchased the property, renaming it and establishing it as a gathering place for distinguished writers including André Gide, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, as well as figures from politics and the military, until his death in 1935. The house, partially inscribed as a historical monument in 1976, is now recognized as a writer's house with a botanical garden designated a "Remarkable Garden" in 2009, combining private residence with limited public access.
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- Type
- house
- Heritage
- monument historique inscrit, Maisons des Illustres
- Place
- Hyères, France
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