Two items on fancy houses
François Legault is selling his posh Outremont house, and the Gazette gives it the full real estate treatment with photos of the rooms and features.
One reason given for the sale is that the premier needs less space because his sons no longer live with him: the question whether they still did was raised in February by Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, who accused Legault of breaking household bubble rules by socializing with them. Legault riposted that it was OK because both boys lived with him, so either they’ve been given their marching orders within the last few weeks, or Legault was telling a convenient fib. They’re aged 27 and 28.
Jacques Villeneuve has finally sold his mansion in Westmount. It’s a rather grim-faced brick façade but no doubt cushy enough inside.
Ephraim 10:28 on 2021-04-03 Permalink
Legault’s house… https://www.centris.ca/en/houses~for-sale~montreal-outremont/17534601?view=Summary
Proposmontreal-Martin 11:04 on 2021-04-03 Permalink
This sentence on the Villeneuve story proves the quality of journalism of TVA.
L’acheteur, dont la clinique dit être débordée actuellement, se spécialise dans les augmentations mammaires et des fesses (les Brazilian butt lifts), entre autres.
Why did they think that this was necessary to the story?
Kate 11:08 on 2021-04-03 Permalink
Well, it caught your eye : )
ProposMontreal-Martin 11:12 on 2021-04-03 Permalink
@Kate ok, well yes, you got me, but it got my attention for the wrong reasons
dwgs 12:15 on 2021-04-03 Permalink
Because it was titillating???
Poutine Pundit 12:24 on 2021-04-03 Permalink
Note the leopard-print carpet in Legault’s home theatre. It’s in the Gazette piece but that photo has since been removed from the Remax listing.
Kate 12:30 on 2021-04-04 Permalink
Very stylish!
ant6n 14:58 on 2021-04-04 Permalink
Thats a great location for a giant masion. Wit the REM itll be like 10-15 minutes from downtown.
…Although I don`t think like a rich person, who´d get like chauffeured around or something.
JaneyB 18:10 on 2021-04-04 Permalink
The AssNat is in Quebec city and Legault has been living in Mtl? He must have another place near work with a shorter commute as well, I assume.
Kate 18:43 on 2021-04-04 Permalink
The Gazette says Legault & fam have been living in that house since 1998, which is also the year he was first elected (as a member of the PQ at the time). So he’s been commuting to Quebec City for some years.
Legault is a West Island boy. I did a bit of his family tree to try to verify whether he has indigenous ancestry, as he has claimed, and found that he comes from several generations in the Ste-Anne de Bellevue area and was born there himself. In some sense, a Montrealer. I wasn’t able to determine whether anyone in the tree was indigenous, but it didn’t look like it for the 4 or 5 generations I worked out. French Canadian, one line of possibly German ancestry, but no apparently native names.
GC 20:45 on 2021-04-04 Permalink
I feel the same way, ant6n. I look at big houses and think “ugh, all that cleaning”…as if I’d be cleaning it myself when I could afford it. And, yeah, can’t help but think of how accessible the metro would be…