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Victor von Gibelin, also known as Beau Gibelin because of his beauty, was a Swiss military officer in French service and a politician in his hometown of Solothurn in Switzerland. He was the last offic
Victor von Gibelin, chalk drawing by Henri-Pierre Danloux, portrayed in Paris in 1791.
14 July 1789: The Baron de Besenval's troops in the courtyard of the École militaire on the Champ de Mars, consisting of the Swiss Regiments de Diesbach, de Châteauvieux and de Salis-Samade, the latter was the regiment in which Victor von Gibelin and Ludwig von Flüe served at that time, as well as the French Hussar Regiments de Berchény and de Chamborant. After the Taking of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 by the revolutionaries, the baron's troops hastily withdrew on the night of 14 to 15 July.
The dining room of the Hôtel de Besenval. It was in 1782, when the architect Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, commissioned by the Baron de Besenval, transformed the Grand cabinet into what was then a novelty: A dining room in the neoclassical style.
Pierre Victor, baron de Besenval de Brunstatt was a Swiss military officer in French service. He was usually just referred to as Baron de Besenval. Over time and depending on the language, the family
Portrait by Jean-Marc Nattier, 1766
Pierre Victor de Besenval's country estate near Solothurn, the Schloss Waldegg, where he was born.
La Gazette de France (excerpt): The announcement of the appointment of Pierre Victor de Besenval as brigadier by King Louis XV on 25 March 1747.
The Hôtel de Besenval, which Pierre Victor de Besenval acquired in 1767.