Jardin remarquable du Plantier de Costebelle, Hyères

The Plantier de Costebelle is a house of neo-Palladian architecture built from 1857 by Baroness Hortense Pauline Husson de Prailly. Located in the town of Hyères-les-Palmiers, in the department of Var, on the eastern slopes of the Mount of Birds and the hills of Costebelle, the property overlooks the harbor of Hyères, the peninsula of Giens and the islands of Porquerolles and Port-Cros. In the second half of the 19th century, the "Villa des Palmiers" was a resort for eminent clergymen and also welcomed the legitimist writer Armand de Pontmartin. But the most illustrious visit to date remains the passage to the Villa des Palmiers, of Queen Victoria accompanied by Princess Henri de Battenberg, in 1892.

In 1896, the French novelist and academician Paul Bourget, author of Le Disciple, bought the property which then took its current name, "Le Plantier de Costebelle", and received many personalities from the literary world, such as André Gide, Henry James, Edith Wharton, from the political sphere or even military and this, until his death, in 1935. The estate was then passed on to the novelist's heir, General Marius Daille.

The house is partially listed in the supplementary inventory of historical monuments by a decree dated December 26, 1976. Its botanical park has been labeled "Remarkable Garden" since November 2009. After many years of renovation intended to restore the architectural and botanical ensemble as desired by Hortense de Prailly in the 19th century, Le Plantier de Costebelle is today a writer's house, combining private residence and opening to the public under certain conditions.