Villa Déramond-Barre, Saint Denis

The Villa Déramond-Barre is a significant Créolité villa built on the eve of the French Revolution and located on Rue de Paris. The villa's architecture features a symmetrical facade with its back covered with shingles. The villa was established on land that belonged to the East India Company, and was owned in 1814 by the Antoine Desforges Parny, the half-brother of the poet Evariste de Forges de Parny. It also was the house of the birth of poet Léon Dierx. Later the villa belonged to other owners, but now it has become the property of the Department.