THE TREATY HOUSE
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House built between 1779 and 1781 for Lanière which inevitably attracts the eye in Lunéville
This house, next to the garden and the park of the castle's Bosquets, inevitably attracts the eye. It was built between 1779 and 1781 for Lanière, Royal Mayor of Lunéville at the time. It is called the House of the Treaty because it is here that the Treaty of Luneville was signed on March 8, 1801, between France and Austria. The representatives of the two countries, Joseph Bonaparte, Count Louis de Cobentzel, met there to agree on the allocation of the left bank of the Rhine to France. The building with its long straight lines, mouldings and decoration referring to Greek and French classical art is clearly neoclassical in style. It has seen the passing of great American names known from the Second World War: Patch, Eisenhower, Devers and Patton. There they prepared an offensive to Austria.
