BALAN (Château de). - BOUDET (Claude)

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BALAN (Château de). - BOUDET (Claude)
Ad Balani Castrum, dignissimi Praesulis Nicolai Gasparini Ordinis Sancti Antonii Abbatis, [...] magnificentius reparatum. Panegyricum Carmen. S.l. [Lyon], Offerebat Claudius Boudet, 1745. Printed placard, 60 x 46 cm. Very rare poem in folio form, celebrating the wonders of the castle of Balan in Isère. Located in the commune of Saint-Hilaire-du-Rosier (Isère), the castle of Balan was an important commandery of the Hospitaller Order of Saint-Antoine and became the preferred holiday resort for these monks: In fact, major repairs and embellishments were carried out between 1738 and 1745 by the Prior Abbot Nicolas Gasparini, so much so that this castle, which should only have been used as a place of rest for the elderly and the infirm, and for essential temporary recreation for the youngest, was gradually transformed into a villa for pleasure and worldly pleasures. A religious of the order, named Claude Boudet, composed this poem to celebrate the end of the work, describing the new rooms and outbuildings of the château (the salon, the billiard room, the gallery decorated with paintings and geography maps, the dining room and its stucco ornaments, the chapel and its altar, etc.), the roofs now covered with stone and the walls now covered with stone.), the roofs now covered with glazed tiles, the new avenues lined with fruit trees and boxwood palisades, the garden, the flowerbeds surrounded by orange trees, the greenhouse, the cistern, the vegetable garden, the avenues of bower, the woods and the avenues of chestnut trees. We can see that the Antonine monks, who after all also needed comfort and entertainment, had done nothing to make their house of pleasure a truly enchanting place (Victor Advielle, Histoire de l'ordre hospitalier de saint Antoine de Viennois et de ses commanderies et prieurés, 1883, pp. 141-160).
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