Zamor
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Louis-Benoît Zamor was a Bengali-born slave and revolutionary who spent most of his life in France. Born in Chittagong, Bengal in c. 1762, he was captured and sold into slavery and brought to France,
Possible portrait by Marie-Victoire Lemoine, 1785
Alleged portrait of Zamor by a member of the Van Loo family
Zamor's final residence in the Rue Maître-Albert
Château de Madame du Barry
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The Château de Madame du Barry is a château constructed at the end of the 17th century in Louveciennes, in the Yvelines department of France. It was expanded and redecorated in the middle of the 18th
Zamor
…so after Louis XV died in 1774 and Marie Antoinette sent du Barry into exile near Meaux. In 1776, du Barry reunited with Zamor and they moved into the Château de Madame du Barry; a 1771 painting commemorating the inauguration of the château's "Pavillon de Musique" featured a supposed likeness of Zamor. In 1789, the French…
Pavillon de Musique – elevation of entry side (garden façade)
Pavillon des Eaux, later called Château de Madame du Barry – northern façade facing the chemin de la Machine
Louis XIV
Louise-Françoise de Bourbon