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Saint Pierre Han (Sen Piyer Han) is a historic building in the Galata neighborhood of Istanbul, Turkey. It’s located a block uphill from Bankalar Street at the corner of Eski Banka Street and Galata Kulesi Street.
The building was built in 1772 on the old bank street, which is one of the streets parallel to the banks street. The building covers the left side of the street from Karaköy to Şişhane. Although there are five gates numbered 7, 9, 11, 15, 17, this building is actually the French ambassador st. A single building built by the priest. It is said that the French poet Chenier was born in 1762 in another building where this building is located.
We do not know to what extent it served the French literature before, but today, it is a building that is at the service the tradesmen shops.
no : 17 izol bobinaj / no : 15 zafer pompa / no : 11 topkapı elektrik / no : 9 akım elektrik / no : 7 akkor neon
Constructed by the French Ambassador Comte de Saint Priest in 1770-1775, the structure consists of several buildings connected to each other. There are Genoese crests on the facade of the building.
While the Ottoman Bank was being built, the gold belonging to the Treasury was kept in this inn for a long time. Later, the Ottoman Bank, which served as the first Central Bank in the Ottoman Empire, first started its activities in this building. (1856) When the Ottoman Bank moved to its new building on Bankalar Caddesi in 1892, the building began to be used as an inn. The architect of this new building, Vallaury, of French origin, had an inscription bearing his name in memory of the poet Chernier placed on the front of the building, right after the Ottoman Bank moved from here. The building was used as the Italian Chamber of Commerce for a while.
Dating back to Rome and continuing its testimony in Eski Banka Street in Beyoğlu - Galata region, which has been keeping the pulse of trade as a Genoese colony since the 12th century. Pierre Han is one of the buildings that attract attention with its multi-layered texture in the city.
Saint Pierre Han was built in 1771 by François-Emmanuel Guignard, Comte de Saint-Priest. It originally housed French interests in Constantinople including the French National Bank. From 1856 to 1893, it was the home of the Ottoman Bank. The building also hosted the Constantinople Bar Association, the Italian Chamber of Commerce, several architects, and a mustard factory.
There’s also a plaque commemorating the birth of French poet André Marie Chénier. He was born in a wooden house on the site on October 30, 1762. His father was a French diplomat and his mother a Greek. The family moved to France when Chénier was three years old and the house later burned down. If you look closely, you’ll notice the crest of the Comte de Saint-Priest adorning the building as well as the fleur-de-lis of the Kingdom of France.
The history of the inn is the temple of Dominican priests, bearing the signature of the Italian architect Gaspare Trajano Fossati, for which it was first named. Pierre Church. After the wooden lodgings of the church were burned in the famous fires of the region, St. Pierre, with its 58-meter-long façade, is located on an area of approximately 2500 square meters. The inn, which is perceived as a single building from the outside, actually consists of different building groups added to each other.
Among the highlights of the inn's memory is that it hosts
the Bank-ı Osmani-i Şahane, which was established in 1863 as one of the
official banks of the Ottoman state. Signs of these names are still in place in
the building, which was used as an office by important architects of the period
such as Antoine N. Perpignani, Hovsep Aznavur, Marco G. Langas, Edoardo Carlo
Vittorio De Nori and Giulio Mongeri, who created the monumental structures of
Istanbul in the years after the bank. The "Muhteşem Kot" workshop,
which was recorded as the first "jeans" workshop in Istanbul, is also
mentioned with St. Pierre Han/Pierre Han.
Fortunately, the building will be restored by the Bahçeşehir Uğur Education Foundation (Bahçeşehir Uğur Eğitim Vakfı) and opened to the public (as of October 2021). When complete, it will feature temporary and permanent exhibition halls, a library, workshops, and areas for cultural activities. The restoration will preserve its cultural and historical heritage. Bahçeşehir University had originally rented the building in 2011 with plans to convert it into a conservatory, but beaurocracy has delayed its renovation until recently.
BAU Conservatory Director Aslıhan Umar stated that they are happy to accept students to Bahçeşehir University (BAU) Conservatory and pointed out that they have great ideals and goals.
Umar said, “In the magical atmosphere of this inn, we want our students to develop their creative thoughts, continue their practical education here, and graduate from us as world artists with a project-oriented education. We have big ideals and big goals. We think that this inn provides us with a great deal of opportunity. This place will be organized according to the needs of the conservatory in terms of theoretical education, it will also become a structure with application and design workshops, and of course, it will be in a structure where our students can crown and stage the knowledge they have learned. It will not be just a conservatory building. We want this place to be a gift to the cultural and artistic life of Istanbul, Europe and the world. We want this place to be a design and art academy.”
İşte kot pantolonun mucidi
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“ My father, Muhteşem Kot, is of Albanian origin. When he was 3 years old, his family migrated to Turkey from Gossiva and settled in Edremit. Since his family was very poor, he barely studied until secondary school, and they apprenticed him to a tailor. By the way, before my grandfather passed away, he gave my father 8 gold coins, this is all his capital. My father, who is determined to be a good tailor, puts these gold coins in his pocket and goes to Paris at that age. After a few months, the gold runs out, he stays there hungry, miserable, and lies on the streets. In the meantime, he learns French, and there is no job that he does not work. Finally, he managed to enter a tailoring school called Institut Ladeveze-Darroux and studied for 2 years, and years later I graduated from there. On his return to Turkey, he met my mother and got married, meanwhile he started tailoring in Istanbul.
He becomes a very famous tailor in a short time, and gets into contracting business with Raif Dinçkök and Bal Mahmut. Etibank, gendarmerie or something, military sewing houses did not exist back then. In our workshop in Sen Piyer Han on Bankalar Caddesi, hooded calico raincoats, which were sewn for Etibank, were dipped in linseed oil, which had a foul odor, so that they would not be waterproof… When my father went to France in the late 1940s, he got a Levi's jeans. It's a rock solid trousers, with extraordinary seams. He learns that these are worn by cowboys and workers in America. My father decides to do the same for work pants in Turkey. He immediately returns to Istanbul and gets to work, but he sees that there is no machine to sew it, so he goes to Singer and orders it right away. That's ok too, but this time there is no jeans fabric. He visits all the factories in Kazlıçeşme, one by one, and has some samples made. And in the end, he managed to do it under those conditions and sold me the first blue jeans he had made for me for 5 cents.” Aytaç Kot
François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest (12 March
1735 – 26 February 1821), was a French politician and diplomat during the
Ancien Régime and French Revolution.
Born in Grenoble, he was admitted as a chevalier to the Order of Malta at five years of age, and at fifteen entered the army. He left active service in 1763 with the rank of colonel, and for the next four years represented the court of France in Portugal.[1]
Reception ceremony of the Comte de Saint Priest at the Ottoman Porte, by Antoine de Favray, 1767.
M. de Saint-Priest with the Grand Vizier at the camp of Daud Pasha in 1769, by Antoine de Favray.
Saint-Priest was sent as an ambassador in 1768 to the
Ottoman Empire, where he remained (with the exception of one short interval)
until 1785. There, he married Wilhelmina von Ludolf, the daughter of the
ambassador of the Kingdom of Naples to the Sublime Porte. His Mémoires sur
l'ambassade de France en Turquie et le commerce des Français dans le Levant,
prepared during a return visit to France, were only published in 1877, when
they were edited by Charles Schefer. Besides these, he wrote an Examen des
assemblés provinciales (1787).
In 1788, after a few months spent at the court of The Hague, he joined the ministry of Jacques Necker as a minister without portfolio. He was one of three liberals dismissed from their posts when the conservative intrigues of the comte d'Artois (the king's youngest brother) and the duchesse de Polignac reached a climax during the second week of July 1789. That success, however, ended with the storming of the Bastille. In Necker's subsequent second cabinet, St.-Priest was reinstated as the secrétaire d'état of the royal household, the Maison du Roi. Later, in August 1790, he was also named by King Louis XVI as the Ministre de l'Intérieur.
As the French Revolution progressed, he became alarmed at the increase of the National Constituent Assembly's power at the expense of the King's royal authority. He became a special object of popular hatred when he was alleged to have replied to women begging for bread: "You had enough while you had only one king; demand bread of your twelve hundred sovereigns". Nevertheless, he held office until January 1791.[1]
Shortly after his resignation he went to Stockholm, where his brother-in-law was the ambassador of the Holy Roman Emperor, Leopold II, to the Swedish court.
In 1795, the royal duchess Charlotte mentioned him in her famous diary as a suspected agent for the Russian Empire. According to the rumor, countess Ulrica Eleonora Rålamb was the lover of count Carl Mörner (1755–1821), who had a central position at the royal court and was well informed about classified state secrets. In parallel, she was also a close acquaintance of François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest, whose wife Constance Wilhelmine de Saint-Priest was well known to be a Russian agent i Sweden. According to the information of Charlotte, Rålamb acquired classified information from the well informed Mörner, and gave the information to Saint Priest, who in turn sent it to Platon Zubov, the favorite of Catherine the Great, in Russia.[3] The suspected activities were never officially investigated, however.
In 1795 he joined King Louis XVI's middle brother, the comte de Provence, at Verona as an émigré minister of the House of Bourbon. After the death of Louis XVI's son, the comte de Provence declared himself King Louis XVIII of France. Later, Saint-Priest accompanied Louis XVIII's exiled court to Blankenburg and Mittau. In 1808, in disagreement with the policies of Louis XVIII, he retired to Switzerland. After vainly seeking permission from Napoleon to return to France, he was expelled from Switzerland, and wandered about Europe until the Bourbon Restoration.
Return to France and death
François' nephew, Louis-Alexandre de Launay, comte
d'Antraigues (1753–1812), was a famous pamphleteer, diplomat, spy and political
adventurer during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.
From the wealthy bourgeoisie Lyonnaise, the Guignards acquire the estate in the middle of the 17th century century and go for two hundred years transform the Château – inside as on the outside - without really settle there. Francois Emmanuel is the most illustrious; he evolved in the spheres of power for almost a year half century. At the age of 15 he entered the company of the Musketeers and becomes the king's bodyguard Louis XV. After two campaigns soldiers in Germany, he was appointed at only 28 years old ambassador to Lisbon, Constantinople then in Holland. Some suspected it even to be a Russian spy, because many times his negotiations have gave the advantage to Russia.
His Memoires sur l'ambassade de France en Turquie et le commerce des Francais dans le Levant, prepared during a visit to France, were only published in 1877, when they were edited by C. Schefer. After a few months spent at the court of the Hague, he joined the ministry of Necker as minister without a portfolio, and in Necker's second cabinet in 1789 was secretary of the royal household and minister of the interior. He became a special object of the popular hatred because he was alleged to have replied to women begging for bread, "You had enough while you had only one king; demand bread of your twelve hundred sovereigns." Nevertheless he held office until December 1790. Shortly after his resignation he went to Stockholm, where his brother-in-law was Austrian ambassador. In 1795 he joined the comte de Provence at Verona as minister of the household. He accompanied the exiled court to Blankenburg and Mittau, retiring in 1808 to Switzerland. After vainly seeking permission to return to France he was expelled from Switzerland, and wandered about Europe until the Restoration. Besides the memoirs already mentioned he wrote an Examen des assemblees provinciales (1787). His eldest son, Guillaume Emmanuel (1776-1814), became majorgeneral in the Russian service, and served in the campaigns of Alexander I. against Napoleon. He died at Laon in 1814. The second, Armand Emmanuel Charles (1782-1863), became civil governor of Odessa, and married Princess Sophie Galitzin. The third, Emmanuel Louis Marie Guignard, vicomte de Saint Priest (1789-1881), was a godson of Marie Antoinette. Like his elder brother he took part in the invasion! of France in 1814. At the Restoration he was attached to the service of the duke of Angouleme, and during the Hundred Days tried to raise Dauphine in the royal cause. He served with distinction in Spain in 1823, when he was promoted lieutenant-general. After two years at Berlin he became French ambassador at Madrid, where he negotiated in 1828 the settlement of the Spanish debt. When the revolution of July compelled his retirement, Frederick VII. made him a grandee of Spain, with the title of duke of Almazan, in recognition of his services. He then joined the circle of the duchess of Berry at Naples, and arranged her escapade in Provence in 1832. Saint Priest was arrested, and was only released after ten months' imprisonment. Having arranged for an asylum in Austria for the duchess, he returned to Paris, where he was one of the leaders of legitimist society until his death, which occurred at Saint Priest, near Lyons, on the 26th of February 1881.
Born May 7, 1752
Deceased on January 12, 1807, at the age of 54
Parents
William von Ludolf, Reichsgraf von Ludolf
Catherine Chabert
Family
Married in October 1774 in Istanbul, to François Emmanuel de
Guignard de Saint-Priest (1735 - 1821), knight, count of Saint-Priest, Minister
of the Interior, with
William Emmanuel
(1776 - 1814)
Anastasia Emilie
(1781 - 1861)
Armand Emmanuel
Charles (1782 - 1863)
Louis (1789 - 1881)
Married to Axel von Fersen (1755 - 1810), colonel of the
Royal Swedish Regiment
Constance Wilhelmine de Saint-Priest
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Constance Wilhelmine de Saint-Priest (1752-1807), was a
French countess. She was active as a spy and diplomat in Sweden.
She was born to count Wilhelm Moritz Heinrich von Ludolf, Ambassador of Naples in Constantinople, and Catherine Chabert, and married the ambassador of France, François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest, in October 1774.
During the French revolution, the couple left for Sweden, where they participated in high society. In the summer of 1794, they were banned from the Swedish royal court at Drottningholm Palace, as it had become known that they were given an allowance from Catherine the Great and assumed to be dangerous Russian spies. In the spring of 1796, the movement of Russian troops along the Finnish border gave rise to suspicions in Sweden that Russia was preparing war because of the discontent of Catherine the Great that Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden had been engaged to Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin instead of Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia. The Swedish government of Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm tried to negotiate with the Russian ambassador to Stockholm, Andrei Budberg, but without success. Constance Wilhelmine de Saint-Priest, known for her Russian connections, was thereby assigned through the Spanish ambassador to issue negotiations with Budberg and convince him to agree to informal negotiations with a representative. She succeeded, and Budberg med with Hans Henric von Essen at her apartment. The negotiations were successful. When Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden left for Russia for his engagement with Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia later that year, de Saint-Priest implied that it was due to her intermission that Sweden and Russia had agreed to avoid war through a marriage alliance.
Constance Wilhelmine de Saint-Priest was rewarded by Gustaf
Adolf Reuterholm by being admitted to court again and by having a position at
court secured for her current lover Aminoff. She died in Stockholm.
Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest (4 March 1776, in Constantinople – 29 March 1814) was a French émigré general who fought in the Russian army during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
He was the eldest son of prominent émigré diplomat
François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest (1735–1821), one of King Louis XVI of France's last ministers.
Guillaume Emmanuel became a major-general in the Russian army under Emperor Alexander I of Russia, and fought against the forces of Napoleon.[1] Some weeks before the Battle of Leipzig, he and his cavalry finally defeated the troops of French brigade general François Basile Azemar in the Battle of Grossdrebnitz. Saint-Priest was defeated and mortally wounded during the 1814 Allied invasion of France in the battle of Reims and died two weeks later at Laon.
1772-1781. – Memoirs relating to the embassy of the Chevalier de Saint-Priest in Constantinople for the years 1772, 1773 and 1775
Highly interesting autobiographical account of Guignard de Saint-Priest, a French politician and diplomat during the Ancien Régime and French Revolution, and of his diplomatic career. Appointed ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in 1768, he remained in Constantinople until 1785, with a single brief interruption in 1776/78, and there he married Wilhelmina von Ludolf. Roughly half of the manuscript covers these decisive years spent at the Ottoman court of Mustafa III and Abdul Hamid I, offering a history of French relations with the Porte, biographies of previous French ambassadors and envoys to Turkey, and a history of French commerce and navigation in the Levant.
In spite of his long mission, Guignard clearly was not happy with his posting, complaining of the "faibles et ignorance da la Porte Ottomane", yet he shows a keen eye for detail as well as for the Ottoman Empire's manoeuverings within the broader context of European power politics. His famous portrait of Marie-Antoinette is found in chapter XIX of the manuscript (p. 271-291). His account continues as far as the year 1802, also including his time at the Russian court of Paul I and the last years of Catherine the Great, as well as his stay in Denmark and Norway.
Born in Grenoble, Guignard joined the army at the age of 15. After his mission to Constantinople he became secretary to the Royal household of Louis XVI and Minister of the Interior in Necker s second cabinet in 1789. Later, he apparently served Russia as a spy at the Swedish court before accompanying the exiled court of Louis XVIII to Blankenburg and Mittau. - The manuscript's editor, Comte Alexis de Saint-Priest (1805-51), was the grandson of François-Emmanuel. His father was François-Emmanuel s second son Armand-Emmanuel-Charles de Saint-Priest (1782-1863), also a diplomat who later became Governor of Poldolia and Odessa in Russia.
After his return to Paris, Alexis moved in literary circles, became a member of the Académie Française, and is mentioned in the preface of the original edition of the "Mémoires" (Calmann-Lévy, 1929) by the baron de Barante. Alexis de Saint-Priest entrusted the manuscript to Prosper de Barante as the basis of a biography published in 1845. - At the beginning of the 19th century this manuscript was still in the hands of a descendant of Barante's, who was responsible for the publication.
See also:Affaires étrangères. Correspondance reçue du consulat de Constantinople (1668-1708)https://www.siv.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/siv/rechercheconsultation/consultation/ir/consultationIR.action?irId=FRAN_IR_003977
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