AMBASSADE DE ROUMANIE en République Française | PALAIS DE BEHAGUES

ROMANIAN EMBASSY, PARIS / LOCATION FOR SOME/THINGS CHAPTER005 EDITORIAL SHOOT BY MONIKA BIELSKYTE WITH NORA RENAUD



THE FLAGSHIP OF MARTINE DE BEHAGUES' ACTIVITY AS A PATRON WOULD BE THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BYZANTINE HALL. THIS EDIFICE OF UNIQUE BEAUTY IN THE PARISIAN ARCHITECTURAL LANDSCAPE, BOTH FOR ITS PLAN & FOR ITS DECORATION, WAS CREATED BY THE ARCHITECT GUSTAVE ADOLPHE GERHARDT. WITNESSES FROM THAT PERIOD SAW IN IT THE FRUIT OF THE ARTISTIC TIES BETWEEN THE COUNTESS & JEAN DAMPT. THE STRANGE BEAUTY OF THE PLACE – WHICH BORROWS THE PIOUS & MYSTERIOUS ATMOSPHERE OF A BYZANTINE CHURCH, THE LIGHT OF GOLDEN WALLS & GLITTERING MOSAICS, A DAZZLING MONUMENTALITY IN THE HEART OF PARIS – A SPIRIT DESIGNED BY THIS ‘BENEDICTINE MONK OF THE SCULPTURAL ART’; A MYSTIC ARTIST PROFOUNDLY NOURISHED BY THE MIRACULOUS & THE SACRED.

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