Domaine de Vert-Mont

Built from 1858, for Gustave d'Eichthal (1804-1886), the Greek scholar and ethnologist whose father founded the Eichtel bank in Paris. However, it was most famously associated with the American philanthropists Edward and Julia (Stell) Tuck who made France their permanent home from 1890 and purchased the estate as their country home in 1898, naming it "Vert-Mont" (Green Mount). The estate neighbors the historic Château de Malmaison that was made into a museum dedicated to Napoleon in 1905 and of which Tuck was its greatest benefactor. The original house here had been rebuilt after a fire in 1870 but in about 1900 the Tucks almost entirely rebuilt it to give its present appearance. In 1924, Tuck ceded the estate to his relation Mrs Dorothy Brinley (Morgan) Hall, while allowing him and his wife to remain there until their deaths....