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The Maison de Gondi, the Original Palace of St. Cloud - from a painting by an artist of the period, 1856. '...we are enabled to engrave the original Palace, from a painting on vellum, executed in the same style as the Sevres porcelain, by one of the artists of the period of the edifice...This old residence formed the nucleus of the present spacious chateau'. The château was expanded by Phillipe of France, Duke of Orléans in the 17th century, and by Marie Antoinette in the 1780s. After occupation by Napoleon I and Napoleon III, it was destroyed in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.