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Temple de la Gloire
At the eastern end of the canal dug by Chevotet in 1764, at Orsay in the Essonne, the mother-in-law of the Republican general Jean-Victor Moreau had a small Neo-Palladian temple built. She wished to celebrate the return of peace in Europe after the Battle of Hohenlinden, the last of the Revolution, on 3 December 1800.
On 23 May 1801, returning from Salzburg after a belated honeymoon, the general who had defeated the Austrians stepped from a decorated gondola at the landing stage, separated by an open-air theatre of greenery from the peristyle where his young wife Eugénie Hulot and his mother-in-law Jeanne Perrin awaited him. Listed as a historic monument in 1976 at the request of its then owner, Lady Diana Mosley, it is surrounded by a 1.5-hectare park with an ornamental pool.
