Hôtel du Poët [SEP] architect
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Hôtel du Poët


The Hôtel du Poët is a listed hôtel particulier in Aix-en-Provence. It is located on the Place Forbin at the top of the Cours Mirabeau in Aix-en-Provence. In 1730, Henri Gautier (1676-1757) purchased some land at the top of the Cours Mirabeau, where there was an old watermill. He commissioned architect Georges Vallon (1688-1767) to design a hôtel particulier: the Hôtel du Poët. Later, it was home to a chemist and a printing press. It
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Hôtel d'Esmivy de Moissac


Hôtel du Poët at the top of the Cours Mirabeau. The hotel is three-story high. Its facade has two Doric columns supporting the balcony overlooking the Cours Mirabeau on the first floor. Inside, there is a grand staircase with a wrought-iron railing. On the ceilings, there is ornamental plasterwork representing angels. Its original owner was Lois d'Esmivy de Moissac, an Advisor to the "Cours des Comptes". In 1750, de Moissac's grandson sold it to Honoré Armand de Villars (1702-1770)
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Le Mémorial d'Aix


Le Mémorial d'Aix was a bi-weekly French-language newspaper in Aix-en-Provence from 1837 to 1944. The first issue was published on November 18, 1837. The newspaper was initially owned and printed by the "Imprimerie Remondet-Aubin" (located in the Hôtel du Poët at the top of the Cours Mirabeau). However, it changed ownership in August 1873, when it was purchased by Mr Formental. It was sold in Provence and Paris. It published local news, but also serial novels.
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Georges Vallon


Additionally, he designed the Palais de l'université located on the Place de l'Université on the Rue Gaston de Saporta opposite the Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur in 1734, which formerly housed the law school and now houses Sciences Po Aix. It has been listed since 1929. He also designed several buildings on the Cours Mirabeau in Aix. For example, in 1730, he designed the Hôtel du Poët for Henri Gautier (1676-1757), located at the very top of the Cours, and listed since 1987. Moreover, in 1757
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Jean Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau


Jean Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau (1544/47–1590) was a French architect who designed the Pont Neuf (1579), spanning the Seine, Paris, and became supervisor of the royal works under Henri III and Henri IV, including the Louvre. Several "hôtels particuliers" are ascribed to him. The Hôtel d'Angoulême, the Hôtel de Lamoignon (1584), which houses the Historical Library of the City of Paris, and the Hôtel de Mayenne (rue St-Antoine in the Marais). The Hôtel de Mayenne, with rhythmically
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Hôtel de Charost


Hôtel de Charost is a hôtel particulier located at 39 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris. Since 1814, it has been the official residence of the ambassador of the United Kingdom to France. It is located near the Élysée Palace. The "hôtel" was built in the 1720s for Armand de Bethune, 2nd Duke of Charost, a senior courtier of Louis XV. It was designed by Antoine Mazin, the king's own architect. The building was sited on the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, which was
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Jean Androuet du Cerceau


Jean Androuet du Cerceau (c.1585–1650) was a French architect, the son of Jean Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau, the outstanding Parisian architect of his generation. Cerceau the younger is known for his "hôtels particuliers" in Paris. One, the most famous, is the Hôtel de Sully (1624–29), ranged symmetrically round a deep entrance court off the rue St-Antoine, which was commissioned by the financier Mesme Gallet and bought after its completion by Henri IV's faithful minister. Sculpted figures in high relief set against recessed
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Hôtel Tubeuf


The Hôtel Tubeuf or Hôtel Duret-de-Chevry is a "hôtel particulier" located at 8 Rue des Petits Champs in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris. It was built in 1635 to the designs of the French architect Jean Thiriot for , president of the . It was unfinished, when in 1641 it was purchased by the financier Jacques Tubeuf, who sold it to Cardinal Mazarin in 1649. The latter expanded it and combined it with adjacent "hôtels", creating the Palais Mazarin, which in 1721 became the Bibliothèque du
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Hôtel de Guénégaud


de la nature. It is served by the Arts et Métiers and Filles du Calvaire Metro stations. On the site of the present day Hôtel des Monnaies (1768), the Hôtel de Nevers (on the quai de Nevers, just east of the Tour de Nesle) was purchased in 1646 by Henri de Guénégaud and transformed by the architect François Mansart into the Hôtel de Guénégaud in 1648–1652. The rue Guénégaud was created on the garden side of the hôtel. In 1670 ownership of this Hôtel de Guénégaud was transferred to one
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Hôtel du Lac, Tunis


The Hôtel du Lac (English: "Lake Hotel") is a hotel in Tunis. The building was designed in the Brutalist style by the Italian architect Raffaele Contigiani and built from 1970 to 1973 for the Tunisian government of Habib Bourguiba. The hotel stands to the north of the (formerly the Place du 7-Novembre 1987) at the eastern end of Avenue Habib Bourguiba, between Avenue Mohammed V and A1 motorway, to the west of the Lake of Tunis. It was constructed on 190 reinforced concrete piles up to deep,
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Hôtel Maurel de Pontevès


The Hôtel Maurel de Pontevès (a.k.a. Hôtel d'Espagnet) is a listed hôtel particulier in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. The hotel is located at 38 on the Cours Mirabeau in the centre of Aix-en-Provence. The hotel was one of the first hotels to be built in the Quartier Mazarin. Its construction started in 1647, and it was only completed four years later, in 1651. It was designed by architects Jean Lombard and Pierre Pavillon. They combined the architectural
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Hôtel de la Marine


The hôtel de la Marine (also known as the hôtel du Garde-Meuble) is a historic building on place de la Concorde in Paris, to the east of rue Royale. It was built between 1757 and 1774 on what was then known as "place Louis XV", with a façade by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, "First Architect to the King" and designer of the square. The identical building to its west now houses the hôtel de Crillon. The construction was led by Jacques-Germain Soufflot. Its
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Hôtel d'Esmivy de Moissac


The Hôtel d'Esmivy de Moissac (a.k.a. Hôtel de Villars) is a listed hôtel particulier in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. It is located on the corner of the Cours Mirabeau and the Avenue Victor Hugo, in the centre of Aix-en-Provence. Its exact address is 4, Cours Mirabeau. Construction began in 1710. In 1757, its facade was designed by French architect Georges Vallon (1688-1767), who designed many other buildings in Aix, including the
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Hôtel de Guénégaud


Hôtel de Guénégaud refers to one of several 17th-century hôtels particulier, or large townhouses, in Paris. At 60, rue des Archives in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, this Hôtel de Guénégaud was built between 1651 and 1655 for Jean-François de Guénégaud des Brosses, secrétaire du Roi, maître des Comptes and conseiller d'État, by François Mansart (the only hôtel particulier this architect built to have fully survived). It now houses the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature and the Club de la chasse et
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Hôtel Thomas de Montval


The Hôtel Thomas de Montval in Toulouse, France, is a 20th-century "hôtel particulier" ("palace") built with Renaissance elements of the 16th century. The mansion was built between 1901 and 1904 by the architect Jules Calbairac. In the courtyard, elements of the sixteenth century Renaissance-style Hôtel Jean de Pins were reused when it was partially demolished by the opening of the rue du Languedoc. The central porch gives access to the inner courtyard through a covered passage. The façades are built on two floors
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Grand Hotel Bellevue (Berlin)


The Grand Hotel Bellevue was a hotel on the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany. It was designed by architect Ludwig Heim and opened in 1888. Initially it was called the Hôtel du Parc, later it was also known as the Thiergarten-Hotel. The hotel was demolished in 1928 and Erich Mendelsohn's modern Columbushaus skyscraper was constructed on the site, opening in 1932. It was demolished in 1957 and the site remained vacant until after German reunification, when the Beisheim Center was built there. The Hôtel du Parc is one
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Hôtel de Toulouse


The Hôtel de Toulouse, former Hôtel de La Vrillière is located at 1 rue de La Vrillière, in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. It was built between 1635 and 1640 by François Mansart, for Louis Phélypeaux, seigneur de La Vrillière. Originally, the mansion had a large garden with a formal parterre to the southwest. In 1712, Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Count of Toulouse (son of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan) acquired the Hôtel de La Vrillière and commissioned Robert de Cotte, "Premier Architecte du Roi
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Jacques Garcia


of contemporary architects, and created the concepts for the interiors of the Tour Montparnasse in Paris, Le Méridien hotels, and the Royal Monceau à Paris. He was also the interior architect for the Hôtel Costes and Costes restaurants, the Hotel Majestic, and the restaurant Fouquet's. In 2006, he redecorated the Hôtel Odéon Saint Germain in Paris., He purchased and restored the Château du Champ-de-Bataille in Normandy and undertook to recreate and update the large French formal garden. He also became an avid collector of
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Episcopal Palace (Strasbourg)


Constantin de La Tour d'Auvergne (1682–1732) of the House of La Tour d'Auvergne, between 1724 (1722, according to other sources) and 1732 (1731, 1733 or 1734 according to other sources). It was thus called "Hôtel du grand Doyenné". The plans were provided by Robert de Cotte, who would later design the Palais Rohan. The executive architect was Auguste Malo-Saussard (born 1690, last recorded alive in 1737; sometimes written Malo Auguste Saussard) The Hôtel du grand doyenné was the first
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Hôtel de Boisgelin (Aix-en-Provence)


The Hôtel de Boisgelin is a listed hôtel particulier in Aix-en-Provence. It is located at number 11 on the rue du Quatre Septembre, on the Place des Quatre Dauphins, in the Quartier Mazarin of Aix-en-Provence. It was designed by architects Pierre Pavillon (1612-1670) and Jean-Claude Rambot (1621-1694), and built for Louis Le Blanc de Montespin in 1650. In 1697, it was purchased by Pierre-Joseph Laurens-Brue. That year, he commissioned
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Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond


"architecte du Roi", he made a set of presentation drawings, dated 1699, for the famous cascade and basin with its "jet d'eau" at royal Saint-Cloud constructed several "hôtels particuliers" in Paris, notably the hôtel de Clermont, rue de Varenne, and the hôtel de Vendôme, rue d'Enfer (today boulevard Saint-Michel). As theoretician and illustrator of architecture, Le Blond produced the second (1710) and third (1720) editions of the "Cours d'architecture de Vignole" translated with
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Hôtel de Massa


The Hôtel de Massa is an 18th-century "hôtel particulier", or large townhouse, at 38 rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. It was originally located on the avenue des Champs-Élysées and was moved in 1929 to its present location, in a park beside the gardens of the Paris Observatory. Classified as a historical monument, it has since been occupied by the Société des gens de lettres. The neoclassical hotel was built between 1777 to 1778 by architect Jean-Baptiste Le Boursier
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Charles Juste de Beauvau, Prince of Craon


his bed at the height of the Reign of Terror. The maréchal de Beauvau, died at the "hôtel de Beauvau", his Parisian residence on the Place Beauvau, named after him. The hôtel was built by the architect Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières around 1770 for Charles Juste. The hôtel de Beauvau has housed the Ministry of the Interior since 1861. He owned the Château du Val at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, a property later acquired by Benjamin Franklin. His nephew Marc Étienne Gabriel de Beauvau (
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Michel-Robert Penchaud


were considered a necessary preparation for a career as architect in France. These articles were eventually published in a somewhat different form in the "Statistique du département des Bouches-du Rhône". The prefect Thibaudeau, wishing to attach his services more permanently, named Penchaud architect to the département in 1808, and in 1812 Penchaud returned to the civil position from which he had been ousted in Marseille, following the unsatisfactory work of Michaud in transforming the former Hôtel Roux-de-Corse into the seat of the "Préfecture".
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Hôtel de Sully


, between 1624 and 1630, for the wealthy financier Mesme Gallet. The building is usually attributed to the architect Jean Androuet du Cerceau. The site was chosen to give access to the Place Royale - today the Place des Vosges. The Marais was then an especially fashionable area for the high nobility ; the construction of the "hôtel de Sully" fits in a larger movement of monumental building in this part of Paris. Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully, and former Superintendent of Finances to King Henri IV, purchased the
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Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme


made by the French artist Louis ‘TIM’ Mitelberg in 1986, stands in the center of the museum courtyard. The Hôtel de Saint-Aignan is a mansion built between 1644 and 1650 for Claude de Mesmes, Count of Avaux. He helped Cardinal Richelieu and Cardinal Mazarin negotiate the treaties of Westphalia in 1648. The mansion was designed by the French king's architect Pierre Le Muet (1591-1669). The Hôtel was bought by Paul de Beauvilliers, Duke of Saint-Aignan, in 1688. He began a
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Henri de Guénégaud


Henri de Guénégaud purchased the old Hôtel de Nevers on the quai de Nevers (just east of the Tour de Nesle), and commissioned the architect François Mansart to transform it into the Hôtel de Guénégaud in 1648–1652. He was the elder son of Gabriel Guénégaud, Lord of the Plessis-Belleville (died 1638), and Marie La Croix, Dame du Plessis-Belleville (died 1655). In 1642 he married Elizabeth (Isabel), daughter of the Maréchal Charles de Choiseul, Marquis de Praslin. Their children included
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Hôtel d'Angoulême Lamoignon


, when in 1584 she inherited a large lot near the intersection of the rue des Francs-Bourgeois and the rue Pavée in the Marais district, she decided to use it as the location of her main urban residence. Construction of the Hôtel d'Angoulême began in 1584, but was likely interrupted by the Wars of Religion, and only completed by a second phase of construction in 1611. Its architect is still uncertain: long attributed to Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau on stylistic grounds, an archival discovery of 1984 led some historians to name
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Théâtre Historique


Temple, near its intersection with the rue du Faubourg du Temple: the former Hôtel Foulon and a small café-bar, the Epi-Scié, next to the Cirque Olympique. Together, the two sites cost about 600,000 francs. Work began almost immediately under the direction of the architect Pierre-Anne Dedreux and the architectural (and stage set) decorator-painter Charles Séchan. The awkward site, wedged between two buildings at the front, and wide at the back on the rue des Fossés du Temple, "required
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Alphonse de Gisors


promoted to Architecte in 1824. Early in his career he used the classical style of Percier, designing fire stations, theatres, town halls, and other public buildings in Paris and the provinces. Around 1828 he designed the Hôtel de la Préfecture and the Hôtel de Ville in Ajaccio, Corsica. His major work was an extension of Salomon de Brosse's Palais du Luxembourg between 1836 and 1841, when he added a garden-side wing parallel to the original "corps de logis" and a wood-panelled Chamber of Sessions
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Hôtel du Châtelet


The hôtel du Châtelet is a "hôtel particulier", a kind of large townhouse of France, at 127, rue de Grenelle, in the 7th arrondissement, Paris. The building is now the home of the Ministry of Labour and the minister’s official residence. Hôtel du Châtelet was commissioned from Mathurin Cherpitel in 1770 by the Duke of Châtelet, and completed in 1776. After the duke was guillotined in 1793, the house was inscribed on the list of civil buildings, and it served from 1796 to 1807 as the
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Palais Garnier


architect in 1846, undertook various studies in suitable sites and designs. By 1847, the Prefect of the Seine, Claude-Philibert de Rambuteau, had selected a site on the east side of the Place du Palais-Royal as part of an extension of the Rue de Rivoli. However, with the Revolution of 1848, Rambuteau was dismissed, and interest in the construction of a new opera house waned. The site was later used for the Grand Hôtel du Louvre (designed in part by Charles Rohault de Fleury).
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History of Lyon


contributions to this industry. The geographical situation of Lyon meant that many artists and architects passed through it on their way to and from Italy, and their influence is plain to see in many buildings of the period, such as the Hôtel-Dieu and the Loge du Change. During the 18th century the expansion resulting from increased prosperity indicated the need for a measure of systematic town planning, and this was carried out by a series of brilliant planners and architects such as de Cotte, Soufflot, Morand, and Perrache. When
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Pierre-Adrien Pâris


to a post created for him, architect of the Menus Plaisirs du Roi, he realised plans for the Estates-General of 1789 in the courtyard of the Hôtel des Menus Plaisirs (the workshop for the opera's sets), in the town of Versailles. He was charged by the National Assembly with redeveloping the courtyard into an amphitheatre with graded seating, and installing the same set of gradients in the Tuileries, divided into two, facing a podium. He was appointed architect to the Cathedral of Orléans in 1787 and completed
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Will Alsop


Norman Foster in the competition to design the Hôtel du Département des Bouches-du-Rhône (seat of the regional government) in Marseille, France (the building has been nicknamed "Le Grand Bleu" – "The Big Blue" – and "The Whale" by the locals), in 1994. Alsop and Störmer divided into separate practices in 2000, with Alsop renaming the practice Alsop Architects. Alsop admits to never being very good at handling finances, and his practice went through several difficult periods, including the cancellation
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Achille-Antoine Hermitte


on leave. Codry was listed as architect, acting head of service. An 1872 account of the Hôtel du Gouvernment in Saigon states that Hermitte died in Saigon in 1870 and was succeeded by M. Codry. This date and place is uncertain. Around 1870 Bishop Guillemin wrote, "... our architect, greatly weakened by his work and his period in Saigon, has just returned to France leaving on our shoulders all of the direction and care of the works of our church (cathedral)". The Hong Kong City Hall was
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Pierre-Adrien Pâris


Ange Challe, Louis XVI appointed him King's Designer and Architect (""Dessinateur du Cabinet du Roi""). He worked on numerous decorative schemes for official events, theatrical performances and funerals, and also directed the decoration of the Paris Opera. Appointed to the "Académie royale d'architecture" in 1780, from 1784 to 1790 he directed the construction of the magnificent town hall in Neuchâtel (Switzerland). In 1785, he built the Hôtel Depont des Granges in La Rochelle. Starting in 1787, for the Duchess
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Groupe Lucien Barrière


Paris Hotel Barrière Le Fouquet's Paris***** Deauville Hotel Barrière Le Normandy ***** Hotel Barrière Le Royal Deauville***** Hôtel du Golf **** Cannes Hotel Barrière Le Majestic Cannes ***** Le Gray D'Albion Barrière ***** Courchevel Hotel Barrière Les Neiges Courchevel ***** Dinard Grand Hôtel Dinard***** Enghien-les-Bains Grand Hôtel Enghien **** Hôtel du Lac**** Le Touquet
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Hôtel du Palais


in June 1855 and replaced by the twenty-seven-year-old architect Louis-Auguste Couvrechef, who adopted a less austere style. Couvrechef died in 1858 and was succeeded by the architect Gabriel-Auguste Ancelet. Ancelet built a new wing facing the lighthouse before he was replaced by Auguste Lafollye, who added an attic with rooms for the staff. The villa, in néo-Louis XIII style, consisted of a long main building with three perpendicular wings. The first two wings formed a court, while the third
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Paris


and the Paris Exposition of 1855 brought the first flood of tourists and the first modern grand hotels; the Hôtel du Louvre (now an antiques marketplace) in 1855; the Grand Hotel (now the InterContinental Paris Le Grand Hotel) in 1862; and the Hôtel Continental in 1878. The Hôtel Ritz on Place Vendôme opened in 1898, followed by the Hôtel Crillon in an 18th-century building on the Place de la Concorde in 1909; the Hotel Bristol on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in 1925; and the
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Hôtel du Nord


Hôtel du Nord is a 1938 French drama film directed by Marcel Carné and starring Annabella. The film follows the comings and goings at the Hôtel du Nord on the banks of the Canal St. Martin in Paris. The films begins with the gathering of many of the hotel's occupants around the dinner table for the first communion of Michèle, who lives in the hotel with her policeman father, Maltaverne. Madame Lecouvreur tells Michèle to bring a piece of cake upstairs to Raymonde (Arletty), who is talking with her boyfriend,
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Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat


The Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat, A Four Seasons Hotel is a famous five star luxury resort hotel, situated in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat in the French Riviera. The hotel obtained the "Palace de France" distinction, granted by the French government for its excellence in service in 2011. The highest ranking of all the many “palaces” that sprang up all over the French Riviera, the Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat overlooks the sea from the furthermost tip of the peninsula from which it
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Hôtel du Vieux-Raisin


The Hôtel du Vieux Raisin in Toulouse, France, is a Renaissance "hôtel particulier" ("palace") of the 16th century. Vieux Raisin literally means Old Grape, its name comes from a tavern on the same street that owned a sign with a bunch of grapes. The facade at the back of the courtyard dates from 1518, while the wings more richly decorated date probably from the 1580s. This hôtel particulier is surely one of the most beautiful private mansions of the time. It was built for Berenger Maynier
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François Racine de Monville


François Nicolas Henri Racine de Monville (October 4, 1734, Paris – March 8, 1797) was a French aristocrat, musician, architect and landscape designer, best known for his French landscape garden, Le Désert de Retz, which influenced Thomas Jefferson and other later architects. Monville was a distant relative of the playwright Jean Racine. He was born on October 4, 1734, in the hôtel de Mesmes on rue Sainte-Avoie in Paris. He was the son of Jean Baptiste Racine du Jonquoy the Treasurer-General
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Marcel Poëte


Planning). Marcel Poëte died in Paris on 14 April 1950. As a historian Poëte had little interest in the chronicles of the aristocracy, but wanted to study the growth and evolution of the city as a biologist would observe an organism growing. He prized the documents in the Historical Library as central to understanding the past of the city. He saw great value in photography, which began to be developed in the 1830s, as an objective record of the changing city. In the 1910s and 1920s Poëte developed a new discipline
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Gustave Strauven


Gustave Strauven (Schaerbeek, 1878 - Haute Savoie, 1919) was a Belgian architect. His father was a gardener from Limbourg and he died in World War I. He was an art nouveau architect and he liked to use new technologies. He created more than 30 buildings, incorporating wrought iron floral motifs. He started in Victor Horta's bureau when he was 18 years old. He helped him with the Hôtel van Eetvelde and the Maison du Peuple. Two years later, he spent one year in Zurich. The maison Saint
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Forcade


"Pierre de Biaix", then Chancellor of Foix and Béarn. The exact location of "Biaix" is believed to have been in the "Rue Sully", what was, in 1693, the "Rue du Honset", earlier called the "Rue du Castetmenou (Casteigmenor)", immediately next to the "Hôtel de Gassion", belonging to the President of the Chambre des Comptes of Navarre in Pau, and referred to as the "Hôtel de Casaux" or "Hôtel de Cazaux", after the
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Marcel Poëte


History, Geography and Urban Economy of the city of Paris (Institut d’Histoire, de Geographie et d’Economie Urbaine de la Ville de Paris). With help from this Institute and the Seine department Poëte, Bonnier and Henri Sellier co-founded the School of Advanced Urban Studies (École des hautes études urbaines, EHEU). The EHEU was launched in 1918. Poëte and Bonnier launched the review "La Vie Urbaine" in 1919. Poëte held the chair of the History Seminar at the École pratique des hautes études and was secretary
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Hôtel du Petit-Bourbon


The Hôtel du Petit-Bourbon, a former Parisian town house of the royal family of Bourbon, was located on the right bank of the Seine on the rue d'Autriche, between the to the west and the Church of to the east. It was constructed in the 14th century, not long after the Capetian Kings of France enlarged the fortress of the Louvre in order to use it as a royal residence. On two 1550 maps it is shown simply as the Hôtel de Bourbon, but by 1652, as the Petit-
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Hôtel des Deux-Ponts


The Hôtel des Deux-Ponts, formerly known as the Hôtel Gayot and currently as the Hôtel du gouverneur militaire, is a historic building located on Place Broglie on the Grande Île in the city center of Strasbourg, in the French department of the Bas-Rhin. It has been classified as a Monument historique since 1921. The "Hôtel des Deux-Ponts" is currently used as the official residence of the military governor of Strasbourg. The Hôtel was designed as a hôtel particulier for the brothers, royal moneylenders François-
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Hôtel Brion


The Hôtel Brion, also known as Villa Brion, is a small Art Nouveau hôtel particulier on rue Sleidan in the Neustadt district of Strasbourg, in the French department of the Bas-Rhin. It has been classified as a Monument historique since 1975. The hôtel particulier was built by the architect, Auguste Brion (1861–1940), for himself in 1904. Brion, the scion of a family of artists directly related to the legendary Friederike Brion, was a prolific architect who built four other houses in the same street between 1903
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Hôtel de Rambouillet


The Hôtel de Rambouillet was the Paris residence of Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, who ran a renowned literary salon there from 1620 until 1648. Formerly the Hôtel de Pisani, it was situated in the "rue Saint-Thomas-du-Louvre", in a former quarter of Paris (demolished during the 19th century) and located between the Louvre and Tuileries palaces, near the then much smaller "Place du Carrousel", in the area of what was to become the "Pavillon Turgot" of the Louvre
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Hôtel de Blossac


staircase. It gives a windowless wall to the east, and the hôtel de Brie in the south. This hôtel is older than the hôtel de Blossac (1624), and was reused in the building of the building. As the hotel is a public building, it is possible, during office hours, visiting the external (courtyard and garden) and the staircase, including access to the documentation library. Those outside are usually open to the European Heritage Days. The hôtel de Brie (or "hôtel du Bois de
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Groupe du Louvre


, later Grands Magasins du Louvre, a department store and the Grand Hôtel du Louvre. These shared a large building on the Place du Palais Royal in Paris, France. The division is managed by the Societe Concorde Management Company, a subsidiary of the group trading under the Concorde Hotels & Resorts brand, with locations around the world.. The group previously owned the Paris Hôtel de Crillon but sold it at the end of 2010. The group is the majority shareholder of Baccarat, a crystal manufacturer. Starwood Capital, through its
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Hôtel Tassel


and the furnishing. Horta succeeded in integrating the lavish decoration without masking the general architectural structures. The innovations made in the Hôtel Tassel would mark the style and approach for most of Horta's later townhouses, including the Hôtel van Eetvelde, the Hôtel Solvay and the architects own house and 'atelier'. These houses were expensive to construct and only affordable by the 'haute-bourgeoisie'. For this reason the pure architectural innovations were not largely followed by other architects. Most other Art Nouveau dwellings in Belgium and other European
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Hôtel Matignon


1917. The collection was later broken up and sold by the French government after the war, as war reparations. There were plans to turn the mansion into a museum; the property was to be subdivided and individual dwellings built, including the adjacent mansion built by the architect Jean Walter in 1924. However, Gaston Doumergue learned of the plans and decided to make it the headquarters of the President of the Council of Ministers ("Président du Conseil"), as the position of head of government was known under the Third
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Hôtel des Tournelles


1464, Louis XI built a gallery there which connected this house to the Hôtel-Neuf of Madame d'Étampes, across the rue Saint-Antoine. He also built an observatory for his doctor, Jacques Coitier. Menageries based on those at the hôtel Saint-Paul were later added to house some of the animals previously held at the hôtel Saint-Paul. New specimens were imported from Africa, such as lions, giving the enclosures the name of "hôtel des lions du Roi". No traces remain of the hôtel besides
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Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes


remains and can be seen at 1 Rue du Regard. That was the place where the Conseil de guerre was housed and had connections with Alfred Dreyfus. It was demolished in 1894. The "hôtel de Verrue" was never inhabited by Jeanne Baptiste. She instead lived at number 8 Rue d'Assas near the Palais du Luxembourg. The hôtel de Verrue was built in 1740. She also lived at the "hôtel d'Aubeterre" where she enlarged its gallery to better show her famous collection. That gallery was painted by Claude Audran and
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Hôtel Le Bristol Paris


Hôtel Le Bristol is a five star hotel located in Paris, France at 112 rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré, in the heart of the fashion, design, and art district. Hôtel Le Bristol opened in 1925 and is famous for its historic architecture and luxurious interior. The hotel is part of the Oetker Collection, Masterpiece Hotels which is owned by one of Europe's richest families, the Oetkers founded by Rudolf August Oetker. Rue du Faubourg St.Honoré`s history begins in 1715 when the French monarchy begins to reestablish itself in
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Marie-Joseph Peyre


into accord with the comte de Provence's residence, the Palais du Luxembourg. Work, on foundations already constructed by Moreau, began in May 1779, paid for by Monsieur, and by 16 February 1782, the players of the Comédie Française, who had objected to the project from the start, were installed in the new theatre, which was inaugurated by Marie-Antoinette, 9 April 1782, with a performance of Racine's "Iphigénie". Peyre was the architect of the Hôtel de Nivernais, rue de Tournon,
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Jean Aubert the Elder


Jean Aubert the Elder (ca. 1680 – 13 October 1741) was a French architect, the most successful of the "Régence" and designer of two of the most important buildings of the period: the stables of the Château de Chantilly and the Hôtel Biron in Paris. He also created innovative interior designs, the most notable, the separation of private and public spaces for the Palais Bourbon in Paris. He was the son of Jean-Jacques Aubert, master carpenter in the Bâtiments du Roi, and was trained in
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Place Beauvau


The Place Beauvau is a public square in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, at the intersection of the Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, the Avenue de Marigny, the Rue des Saussaies, and the Rue de Miromesnil. It is in the quartier (district) known as "La Madeleine". The Place Beauvau is best known for the "hôtel de Beauvau", built by the architect Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières around 1770 for the prince, Charles Juste de Beauvau-Craon. In 1859, the French government
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Landmarks in Paris


monuments, buildings, and thoroughfares that run in a roughly straight line from the city centre westwards. Many hotels are located in this district including Hôtel Biron, Hôtel de Castries, Hôtel de Conti, Hôtel de Mademoiselle de Condé, Hôtel du Châtelet, and Hôtel Matignon. The Invalides museum is the burial place for many great French soldiers, including Napoleon Bonaparte, later the Emperor Napoleon I, (1769–1821), and the 18th Century military school, Ecole Militaire, is also located here. Other museums include the Musée Rodin
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Toulouse


houses the Hôtel de Ville (city hall), the Théâtre du Capitole (opera house), and the 16th-century Donjon du Capitole tower. It is located on the Place du Capitole. The Cité de l'espace (Space City) is a theme park of space exploration. The Médiathèque José Cabanis is a library. The "Jardin des Plantes" is a large park spanning several blocks, including a museum, cafés, activities for children and a botanical garden. Toulouse has many hôtels particuliers (large single-family
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Claude Nicolas Ledoux


Senans; at the "Bureau des Bonshommes", an apse opened by a peristyle recalled the pavilion of Madame du Barry and the Hôtel de la Guimard. The order employed was generally Doric Greek. Ledoux also used multiple rustic embossings. This audacious construction met with political criticism, as well as aesthetic criticism of the architect, accused by commentators such as Dulaure and Quatremère de Quincy of taking excessive freedoms with the ancient canons. Bachaumont denounced a ""monument d'esclavage et de despotisme"" (a "monument to enslavement and
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Le Louvre des Antiquaires


to undertake this and other projects in the area. Three months later a company to build the hotel was founded, with many of the same principals. The architect was Alfred Armand (1805-88). Jacques Ignace Hittorff (1793-1967), Auguste Pellechet (1829-1903) and Charles Rohault de Fleury (1801-75) also participated in the design. Félix-Joseph Barrias was commissioned to paint the frescoes. The Grand Hôtel du Louvre opened in 1855 in time for the Exposition Universelle. An 1872
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Casino Central


The Casino Central ("Central Casino") is located in Mar del Plata, Argentina, and is one of the largest such establishments in the country. The Central Casino is one of a pair of twin buildings designed by architect Alejandro Bustillo. Inspired by seafront Hôtel du Palais in Biarritz, France, the casino and neighboring Grand Provincial Hotel (inaugurated in 1950) remain architectural landmarks of the city of Mar del Plata as well as of Argentina. Its decoration was designed by famed French designer Jean-Michel Frank (who
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Musée de la Légion d'honneur


Solférino, and Assemblée Nationale. The museum is housed within the Hôtel de Salm, built in 1782 by architect Pierre Rousseau for Frederick III, Prince of Salm-Kyrburg. The building burned in 1871 during the Paris Commune, and it subsequently was restored by a subscription of medallists. Since 1804, this building has been called the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur, and it is the seat of France's highest honours: the Légion d'honneur (1802), the Médaille militaire (1852), and the Ordre national du Mérite
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Libéral Bruant


Libéral Bruant ("ca" 1635 - Paris, 22 November 1697), was a French architect best known as the designer of the Hôtel des Invalides, Paris, which is now dominated by the dome erected by Jules Hardouin Mansart, his collaborator in earlier stages of the construction. A comparison of Bruant's central entrance to the Invalides, under an arched cornice packed with military trophies with Mansart's "Église du Dome", gives a clear idea of the difference between Bruant's High Baroque and Hardouin-Mansart's restrained
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List of tallest buildings in Quebec City


French: "Hôtel du Parlement") is an eight-floor building and home to the Parliament of Quebec (composed of the Lieutenant-Governor and the National Assembly) in Quebec City. The building was designed by architect Eugène-Étienne Taché and was built from 1877 to 1886. With the frontal tower, the building stands at 52 metres or 171 feet in height. It features the Second Empire architectural style that was popular for prestigious buildings both in Europe (especially France where the style originated) and the United States
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Marcel Gaumont


pupils of the Lycée killed in the 1914–1918 war. This 1925 memorial dedicated to was designed by Pierre Leprince Ringuet with sculpture by Gaumont. Originally located in the Fontainebleau school of artillery it is now held in the Musée de l’école d’Artillerie in Draguignan This memorial is located in the Tours hôtel de ville. It stands at the side of the "Escalier d'honneur". Another cooperation of Gaumont with the architect Pierre Leprince Ringuet. The Laon war memorial lies at the intersection of the rue du Mont de Vaux, the Avenue Gambetta and
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Hôtel du Palais


of the most valuable furnishings. In 1880, the Empress Eugenie sold the estate to the Banque de l'Union Parisienne. The villa was converted into a hotel casino, the "Palais Biarritz". In 1893, it became a prestigious hotel receiving royalty including Queen Victoria and the Empress Elisabeth of Austria, better known by the nickname "Sissi". According to an 1883 travel book: The hotel was badly damaged by fire in 1903 with only the imperial chapel unharmed. The fashionable architect Édouard Niermans was given the task of reconstruction
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Paris in the Belle Époque


. The Grand Hôtel du Louvre, built for the universal exposition of 1855, opened that same year. The Grand Hôtel on the Boulevard des Capucines opened in 1862. More luxury hotels appeared near the train stations and in the city center during the "Belle Époque"; the Hôtel Continental opened in 1878 on the Rue de Rivoli on the site of the old Ministry of Finance, which had been burned by the Paris Commune. The Hôtel Ritz on the Place Vendôme opened in 1898, and the Hôtel de Crillon on the
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Hôtel de Klinglin


The Hôtel de Klinglin, currently known as the Hôtel du Préfet, is a historic building located near Place Broglie on the Grande Île in the city center of Strasbourg, in the French department of the Bas-Rhin. It has been classified as a Monument historique since 1970. The Hôtel de Klinglin currently serves as the residence of the prefect of the department of Bas-Rhin. It should not be confused with the on the Place de la République, which houses the administrative functions of the prefect. This grand hôtel particulier
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Hôtel d'Arbaud-Jouques


The Hôtel d'Arbaud-Jouques is a listed hôtel particulier in Aix-en-Provence. It is located at 19, Cours Mirabeau in Aix-en-Provence. The widow of Jacques Arbaud purchased the left-side Hôtel de Valbelle-Meyrargues in 1695 and her son André-Elzéard d'Arbaud de Jouques (1676-1744) purchased the right-side Hôtel de Séguiran some time later. They were converted in one hôtel particulier in 1732: the hôtel d'Arbaud-Jouques by the architect Jean-Baptiste Franque (1683-
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Hotel du Cap


The Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc is a resort hotel in Antibes on the French Riviera. Built in 1869 as a private mansion, it opened as a hotel in 1887. The founder of France's "Le Figaro" newspaper, Hippolyte de Villemessant, built the Villa Soleil in 1869 for writers seeking inspiration. In 1887, Italian hotelier Antoine Sella bought the property, and opened the Grand Hôtel du Cap in 1889. In 1914, the Eden Roc pavillon was built 400 yards away from the main hotel. Gerald
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Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat


-Hôtel serves food from three locations: at the Le Cap Gastronomic Restaurant, on its terrace overlooking the Mediterranean and shaded by Aleppo pines, or at the Club Dauphin Restaurant next to the pool. The Grand-Hotel du Cap-Ferrat maintains a collection of well-known vintage wines: The Grand-Hotel du Cap-Ferrat Music Festival Artistic director : Michael Desjardins The Festival is an up-to-date version of the tradition of salon music, which dates back to centuries past, and of the jazz clubs
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The Marais


the following decades the government and the Parisian municipality led an active restoration and Rehabilitation Policy. The main Hôtels particuliers have been restored and turned into museums: the Hôtel Salé hosts the Picasso Museum, the Hôtel Carnavalet hosts the Paris Historical Museum, the Hôtel Donon hosts the Cognacq-Jay Museum, the Hôtel de Saint-Aignan hosts the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme. The site of Beaubourg, the western part of Marais, was chosen for the Centre Georges Pompidou, France's national Museum of Modern Art and one of
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Hôtel d'Europe


side of Place Crillon, was the Hôtel du Palais Royal which was owned by Claude Pierron and his wife Catherine. This is the hotel in which Napoleon’s Marechal Guillaume Brune would be assassinated in 1815. On September 25th 1799, when her husband died, Catherine Pierron bought the Hôtel de Graveson and the same year converted it into a hotel, the Hôtel d’Europe. The Hôtel d’Europe rapidly established an excellent reputation, possibly thanks to Catherine Pierron’s natural sense of service, or to its beautiful and well-shaded courtyard or
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Hôtel de Grimaldi-Régusse


The Hôtel de Grimaldi-Régusse is a listed hôtel particulier in the Aix-en-Provence of France. It is located at 26, rue de l'Opéra in Aix-en-Provence, in the Villeneuve quarter. It was designed by architects Pierre Puget (1620-1694) and Thomas Veyrier for Charles de Grimaldi-Régusse (1612-1687) in 1680. The facade was designed by architect Laurent Vallon (1652-1724). The ceiling in a drawing-room was painted by Sébastien Barras (1653-
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Marcel Poëte


He moved to Paris where he worked in the Sainte-Geneviève Library. He then became curator of the municipal library of Besançon. In 1903 he was head of the Historical Library of the City of Paris (Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris). To make the library more accessible to the general public he arranged exhibitions and conferences, and lectured on the history of Paris. In 1912 Louis Bonnier and Poëte made the first plan for expansion of Paris. In 1916 Poëte decided to convert the library into the Institute of
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Hotel du Cap


Côte d'Azur in 1964; they bought the hotel five years later. For many years the hotel did not accept credit cards. Cash only was accepted, though most guests wired money ahead of their stay. In 2006 this policy was dropped. For about twenty years, amfAR, a nonprofit devoted to AIDS research, has held a charity auction at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc as part of its annual Cinema Against AIDS event at the Cannes Film Festival. In May 2011, the Hôtel du Cap-Eden Roc
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Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat


A new underground car park replaced the old above-ground parking areas. Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts took over management of the hotel on May 8, 2015 and the name was changed to Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat, A Four Seasons Hotel. As of May 1, 2009, the Grand Hotel du Cap Ferrat contains 74 rooms (including 24 suites and the Penthouse), a spa & fitness center and a presidential suite, the Villa Rose-Pierre with its sea-view and pine grove. The Grand
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Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme


of Jewish artisans from Russia, Poland, Romania, and Ukraine who lived in the building. During the roundups of Jews of 1942 by the French Vichy government, several inhabitants of the building were arrested and deported. Thirteen Jewish inhabitants of the Hotel were murdered in the Nazi death camps. The Hôtel de Saint-Aignan was bought by the City of Paris in 1962 and was classified as a historical monument in 1963. A first restoration campaign began in 1978 directed by Jean-Pierre Jouve, Chief Architect of the National Office
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Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme


of Historic Monuments and Sites. The second restoration campaign opened in 1991, directed by Bernard Fonquernie, also Chief Architect of the National Office of Historic Monuments and Sites. At the initiative of the mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac, the Hôtel was chosen in 1986 for the installation of a museum dedicated to Jewish civilization: the Museum of Jewish Art and History. The mansion was built on a large irregular plot of land occupied by the townhouse Claude d’Avaux inherited in 1642. Pierre Le Muet demolished the old building and followed the
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Julien Labrousse


Julien Labrousse (born 9 October 1977), is a French entrepreneur and architect, particular owner and manager of two Parisian theaters Elysée Montmartre and Le Trianon. He specializes in the creation of cultural venues. In 2005 he bought and heavily reformed Hôtel du Nord, building listed as an historical monument, a place which is known to have inspired the 1938 Marcel Carné's feature film of 1938. Then in 2009 he bought with Abel Nahmias, the Theatre Le Trianon. It carries a heavy restoration of the building. Then it
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Architecture of Paris


The new residences typically were separated from the street by a wall and gatehouse. There was a large court of honor inside the gates, with galleries on either side, used for receptions, and for services and the stables. The house itself opened both onto the courtyard and onto a separate garden. One good example in its original form, between the Place des Vosges and rue Saint-Antoine, is the Hôtel de Sully, (1624–29), built by Jean Androuet du Cerceau. After 1650 the architect François Mansart introduced
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Hôtel de Ville, Reims


the city by the duke of Guise. Nicolas Lespagnol, the city inhabitants' lieutenant, laid the foundation stone on 18 June 1627 and the new building was constructed to designed by the architect Jean Bonhomme. Its first wing on rue des Consuls (now called rue du général Sarrail) was completed quickly and the council began meeting there from 1628 onwards. The façade was completed by Nicolas's brother Claude Lespagnol in 1636 and the building as a whole completed with the corner tower in 1823. Construction resumed in 1863 with the two
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Élysée Palace


dead in Greek mythology. Important foreign visitors are hosted at the nearby Hôtel de Marigny, a palatial residence. The architect Armand-Claude Molet possessed a property fronting on the road to the village of Roule, west of Paris (now the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré), and backing onto royal property, the "Grand Cours" through the Champs-Élysées. He sold this in 1718 to Louis Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Count of Évreux (families: Dukes and Princes of Bouillon and Sedan: La Marck
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Hôtel de Crillon


1793, King Louis XVI as well as Queen Marie Antoinette were guillotined in the Place de la Concorde directly in front of the building. Eventually, the building was returned to the Crillon family, whose descendants lived there for more than a century until 1904. In 1907, the Société du Louvre purchased the property and transformed it into a hotel. The building then underwent a two-year refurbishment under the supervision of architect Walter-André Destailleur. This included the purchase of two neighbouring buildings on the rue Boissy d'Anglas to enlarge
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Édouard Niermans (architect)


the Folies Bergère (1900) and the Moulin Rouge (1903). He designed the Royal Palace Hotel in Ostend in 1900, with a huge and ornate entrance, and with much of the wall of the central block of the hotel made of glass. The hotel has since been demolished. He also rebuilt the Hôtel du Palais in Biarritz, which had been badly damaged by a fire in 1903. Niermans extended the south wing, added two stories, and added a large bay holding a magnificent restaurant. The hotel now
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Mathurin Cherpitel


Lieutenant General of Police, Antoine de Sartine, instructed him to build a nurses' bureau, on the Rue de Gramont. By 1770, he had become a famous architect. He built the Hotel du Chatelet on the Rue de Grenelle, and his most notable hôtels, the Hotel de Damas d'Antigny and the Hotel de Rochechouart. His most important public building was the , built in 1775, but destroyed in 1798 and later replaced with a new design. He was received as a member of the Académie Royale d'Architecture in 1776
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American–German Colony


i.e. Sea street; now renamed and renumbered Rehov Auerbach 8), most likely following plans of the architect , one of their fellow faithful. In May 1878 the Templers moved these institutions to the German Colony in the Rephaim valley near Jerusalem and sold the Tempelstift building to the Russian-born German-naturalised Plato von Ustinow, one of Metzler's proselytes. Ustinov extended the building by one more floor, reopened it as "Hôtel du Parc" and moved into the new top floor. Ustinov employed , an alumnus of the Miqveh
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Jean-François Leroy


married Toudouze Françoise-Thérèse, daughter of the prince's master of the hunt. He was appointed architect of the Château de Chantilly in 1768, upon the death of his predecessor, Brice Le Chauve. In Chantilly, he built the Château d'Enghien (1769–1770) and the Hameau de Chantilly (1774–1775). He worked with Claude Billard de Bélisard on the Palais Bourbon and the Hôtel de Lassay, and then succeeded him in about 1780. In 1782 he revised Bélisard's plan for the Place du Palais Bourbon. With the
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Les Rayons et les Ombres


election to the French Academy on 7 January 1841, when he took the seat of a deceased opponent. The most famous poems are numbers 34 and 42, "La Tristesse d'Olympio" and "Oceano Nox". "Fonction du poëte" ("Poet's Role", 1839) is the first in the collection, and represents a dialogue in which an argument for aloofness is presented, and then refuted. "La Tristesse d'Olympio" ("The Sadness of Olympio", 1837) describes a man returning to Bièvres
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Hôtel de Boisgelin (Rue de Varenne, Paris)


The Hôtel de Boisgelin, a.k.a. Hôtel de La Rochefoucauld-Doudeauville, is a hôtel particulier in Paris, France. It houses the Italian embassy in France. It has been listed since 1926 as a "monument historique" by the French Ministry of Culture. The Hôtel de Boisgelin is located at 47-49 on the Rue de Varenne in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. The hôtel particulier as built in 1732 for Gérard Heusch de Janvry, a Secretary to the King of France. It was designed by French architect Jean
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Marcel Poëte


Marcel César Poëte (10 October 1866 – 14 April 1950) was a French librarian, historian and urban planning theoretician. He was a co-founder of the School of Advanced Urban Studies, where he taught, and was highly influential in developing new theories of urban planning in Paris in the first half of the 20th century. Marcel César Poëte was born in Rougemont, Doubs, on 10 October 1866. He studied at the École Nationale des Chartes (class of 1890) and then started work in the Bourges library.
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Marcel Poëte


which he called "science de la ville" and Patrick Geddes called "civics." Poëte's writings about Paris and his courses at the EHEU reflect the profound influence of Henri Bergson. He adopted Bergson's vitalism and his ideas of duration and "creative evolution" in architecture and city plans as opposed to mundane functionalism. Poëte anticipated a new phase of industrial development in Paris. He viewed a city as an living organism that constantly adapts itself to changes in the economic environment, while retaining relics of the past. He
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Landmarks in Paris


is the Arab World Institute, Musée Curie, Hotel des Trois Colleges, Jardin des Plantes, Musée national du Moyen Âge, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle Paris Mosque, Paris Observatory, Sainte-Geneviève Library, and Théâtre de la Huchette. The 6th arrondissement, to the south of the centre and Seine has numerous hotels and restaurants and also educational institutions. Hotels located in the district include Hôtel Au Manoir Saint Germain des Prés, Hôtel de Chimay, Hôtel de Vendôme, Hôtel des Monnaies, Hôtel Lutetia, and L'Hôtel, cafés
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Hôtel Matignon


The Hôtel de Matignon () is the official residence of the Prime Minister of France. It is located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France. The address of Hôtel de Matignon is 57 rue de Varenne, Paris. "Matignon" is used as a metonym for the governmental action of the Prime Minister of France. In 1649, as part of his plan for the construction of the Hôtel des Invalides, Louis XIV decided to restore the old "Chemin du Bois de la Garenne," which had become the "
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