Suresnes place

“By the time of the 1848 revolution, their houses and estates at Ferrières, Suresnes, Boulogne, Gunnersbury, Schillersdorf and Grüneburg had been in the family for years.…”

“Small wonder he took the precaution of burying his bonds in the grounds of Salomon’s house at Suresnes.…”

“For the internal threat—the threat which prompted James to bury bonds in the gardens at Suresnes—was in many ways the lesser threat posed by the revolutions of the period.…”

“Despite the fact that he spent little time there, Salomon lavished money on Suresnes.…”

“As Lord William Russell reported when he visited Suresnes in 1843, “nature is made to yield to money, & produce the fruits & flowers of summer in the spring.”…”

“Two years later James was said to be “transplanting a great number of very large full-grown yew-trees” from Melun to Suresnes, presumably as a gift to Salomon.…”

“it threatened to reduce the value of Salomon’s villa at Suresnes, which was close to the planned line of defences.…”

“The marking of selected town houses and the ransacking of Salomon’s villa at Suresnes—along with Louis Philippe’s at Neuilly—were only the first visible expressions of this threat.…”