Basic Site Details | Name: | La Corudos | | Town, district or village: | Roquebrune Cap Martin | | City or county: | | | Country: | France | | Parish: | | | Status: | | | Grid ref: | | | Notes: | Esther Barbara Chalmers, niece of R.S. Lorimer, attended this school and her unpublished autobiography in the NLS (http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/online/cnmi/inventories/acc8695.pdf) mentions the house as having been "designed for [the Bessires] by our Uncle Robert" and gives it a name, Lacorudos which is a typo or misspelling of La Corudos (p. 5 of the addendum to ch. 3 of the tss; the page numbering is tricky in this doc!).
There is a photo of the house (# 155 in the "Inventory" at above link) in the NLS, but what really helps is this: p. 199 in this linked pdf: http://www.montmollin.ch/pub/Guillaume.pdf (the Bessires and the Guillaumes were related, as that document explains) which makes clear that the house was at Roquebrune Cap Martin rather than a more general "Mentone" as it appears in Esther Chalmers's tss.
The house indeed may still exist---note the address of this company:
http://www.societe.com/societe/sci-corudos-394442974.html
(Courtesy of Professor Kali Israel) | Building Type Classification| The building is classified under the following categories: | | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes |  | Villa | | |
Events| The following date-based events are associated with this building: | | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | c. 1907 | | | |
PeopleDesign and Construction| The following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column. | | | Name | Role | Partnership Group | From | To | Notes | | (Sir) Robert Stodart Lorimer | | | c. 1907 | | |
Clients| The following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | | Name | Notes | | Bessire, Mesdemoiselles Blanche and Aline | Les soeurs Bessire kept a French school in Edinburgh, along with their nieces and some other staff. Lorimer's niece attended the school. |
ReferencesArchive References| The following archives hold material relating to this building: | | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | | Courtesy of Kali Israel, Associate Professor, University of Michegan | Information sent to Dictionary Contact page | | Sent July 2016 | | National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | Lorimer and Matthew Collection | | LOR XSD/119 |
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