Villa Les Cigales

Year built: 1882

Sponsor: Unknown

Architect: Unknown

Originally a roadmender's house, it became the property of Parisian doctor Léon Petit in 1888. The practitioner enlarged it and named it Villa des Pins before selling it to an Englishman, George Jackson, who renamed it Les Cigales. Lady Onslow acquired it in 1904 then resold it to the painter, Jean Goulden.

Purchased in 1904 by the family of Count Onslow, Governor of New Zealand, including his wife and two daughters: Dorothy who married the Duke of Halifax, Viceroy of India then member of the government with Winston Churchill and then Ambassador to the USA, and Gwendolen who married Count Guinness replacing him as deputy when he took over the Brasseries of the same name, it was he who was at the origin of the book of records! Beautiful destiny for the two girls!

Lady Onslow resells it to the painter, Jean Goulden.
During the Great War, it was sold to the wife of Admiral Godfroy, owner of the villa Le Maquis. The building is characterized by its saddleback roof and its two high gables.



Villa La Lezardiere



Address: 417 avenue des Mimosas Saint-Raphaël

Year built: 1886

Sponsor: Doctor Noël Guéneau de Mussy

Architect: Jacob-Walton Houtelet

Already the owner of the villa Les Messugues, doctor Guéneau de Mussy built a second residence which he named villa des Pins. The building is organized into pavilions, terraces and galleries. In its park, remarkable species flourish, such as this pittosporum, which is now over 200 years old. In 1904, George Jackson bought it after having sold his villa Les Cigales to Lady Onslow. Ernest Goulden, who manages the interests of the heiresses of the Heidsieck & Cie champagne house, becomes the owner. After being rented to the Rothschilds, it was the holiday center of the Eclaireurs de France and then sold into apartments.

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