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The Pavillon de Vendôme was bought in 1906 by an enlightened amateur, Henri Dobler, who restored and refurnished it. On his death, he bequeathed the building and its collections to the city of Aix-en-Provence to turn it into a museum that evokes the setting of Aix's Grand Siècle hotels.
The Pavillon de Vendôme, the most seductive of the follies inherited from the Grand Siècle, was built on the orders of Louis de Mercoeur, Duke of Vendôme, to house his passionate love affair with Lucrèce de Forbin Solliès, known as "La Belle du Canet". Surrounded by a sumptuous French garden, the main façade of the pavilion superimposes the three classical orders and is decorated with superb baroque atlantes, garlands of fruit and a mascaron which, it is said, has the features of the Belle du Canet.
The collections consist of numerous 17th and 18th-century portraits and Provençal furniture. Since 1990, the Pavillon de Vendôme has presented numerous exhibitions of modern and contemporary art.
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