Palais Bénédictine (Normandy, France)

The Benedictine Palace is a building combining neo-Gothic and neo-renaissance styles, built at the end of the 19th century in Fécamp for Alexandre-Prosper Le Grand, a liquor merchant and who made his fortune by inventing and marketing the Bénédictine liqueur .
The palace is a mixture of extravagance and tradition. It was commissioned by Alexandre-Prosper Le Grand who was very passionate about art; he wanted to create a hybrid space mixing art and industry and also to anchor his liquor in a local monastic tradition.
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The palace was designed by the architect Camille Albert, an architect from the Hautes-Alpes, who understood both the wishes of Alexandre Le Grand and the local architectural tradition.
The ironwork and ridge fittings are entrusted to another Haut-Alpine artist Ferdinand Marrou (1836-1917) who has just completed the ridge fittings of the Rouen courthouse as well as the 4 pinnacles of the city's cathedral.
Work began in 1882, and it was inaugurated for the first time in 1888. But, devastated on January 12, 1892 by a fire, it was then rebuilt in its current form, in an architecture combining neo-Gothic style and neo-Renaissance style, characteristic of eclecticism, a trend in historicism that spanned the entire 19th century, before the emergence of Art Nouveau to which the style of the palace also referred.
The son of the great architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Adolphe, journalist, visiting the building was himself impressed.

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