Milelli's house

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Milelli's house

The house of the Milelli , French Maison des Milelli , is a 17th century manor house above Ajaccio , Corsica . It has been classified as a French National Historic Monument since 1958.

history

Paul Emile Odone, a great-great-uncle of Napoléon Bonaparte , left the house to the Jesuits . When Louis XV. In 1773 the Jesuits expelled, the Buonaparte family claimed the house for themselves. It was refunded to her in 1785. The house was then administered by Joseph Fesch . In 1793 Napoleon's mother Letizia , his sisters Élisa and Pauline and the future Cardinal Joseph Fesch found refuge there from the supporters of Pasquale Paoli . The Bonapartes campaigned for a French Corsica, while Paoli fought for the island's independence.

At the beginning of October 1799, after his Egypt campaign , Napoleon stayed in the house for two days, together with his generals Jean Lannes , Joachim Murat and the rear admiral Honoré Joseph Antoine Ganteaume , before he left his hometown and the island of Corsica forever.

building

The strict-looking building with its square floor plan is built in the typical Genoese style of its time. The windowless ground floor served as a storage room and probably housed an olive press. The olives were harvested in the surrounding olive grove. In addition, all those foods that could not be grown on the surrounding domain were stored in the storage room. Nowadays the house is empty and closed to visitors.

Domain and park

In the arboretum
Vegetable garden. In the background parts of the city of Ajaccio and the surrounding countryside

The surrounding agricultural domain of around 12 hectares is mostly covered by olive trees. Nowadays it serves as a shady public park above the city. It is managed by the CPIE association. An arboretum was set up on the site in 1993 and a vegetable garden in 2003. The arboretum is home to around 70 indigenous trees. Most of the organic vegetables benefit destitute Ajacciners; a smaller part is sold on site.

References and comments

  1. ^ Maison des Milelli. In: Monuments Historiques. French Government, September 22, 2015, accessed May 7, 2018 (French).
  2. ↑ Les Milelli in Ajaccio. In: Bonesprit. Provincia di Lucca, accessed on May 7, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Karine Huguenaud: Les sites Napoloniens aux environs dÀjaccio. In: Napoleon.org. La Fondation Napoléon, archived from the original on May 3, 2016 ; accessed on May 7, 2018 (French).
  4. ↑ Jean Pierre Belzit: I Milelli, maison de campagne of Bonaparte . In: Corse Matin . July 8, 2011 (French, corsematin.com [accessed May 7, 2018]).
  5. ^ Margaret Rodenberg: Milelli, Bonaparte Family's Corsican Country House - Finding Napoleon. In: mrodenberg.com. March 26, 2011, Retrieved May 7, 2018 (American English).
  6. ↑ Domaine des Milelli. Ajaccio Tourisme, accessed on 7 May 2018 (French).
  7. ^ A b c Hans-Jürgen Siemsen: Corsica . In: DuMont travel paperback . 5th edition. DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2017, ISBN 978-3-7701-7498-0 , p. 176 .
  8. ↑ Notice board on site

Coordinates: 41 ° 56 ′ 18 ″  N , 8 ° 43 ′ 8 ″  E