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After a succeseful political career in Walachia as a foreign affair minister of his father, the ruling prince Barbu Stirbey and of prince Carol I, prince Gheorghe Stirbey retired in 1869 to France. He acquired a castle near Paris at Bécons Courbevoie (nowadays destroyed) and he consacrated himself to art collection. He was the last patron of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux and he gave many of his drawings to the Musée du Louvre, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts and the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Valenciennes. |
