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Palais de la Légion d'Honneur, also known as the Hôtel de Salm, 64 rue de Lille, Paris.. In French contexts, an hôtel particulier is a townhouse of a grand sort. Whereas an ordinary maison (house) was built as part of a row, sharing party walls with the houses on either side and directly fronting on a street, an hôtel particulier was often free-standing, and by the 18th century it would ...
Monographs have been published on some outstanding Parisian hôtels particuliers.; The classic photographic survey, now a rare book found only in large art libraries, is the series Les Vieux Hotels de Paris by J. Vacquer, published in the 1910s and 1920s, which takes Paris quarter by quarter and which illustrates many hôtels particuliers that were demolished during the 20th century.
The Hôtel de Sens (French pronunciation: [otɛl də sɑ̃s]) or Hôtel des archevêques de Sens is a 16th-century hôtel particulier, or private mansion, in the Marais, in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France. It nowadays houses the Forney art library.
The main hôtels particuliers have since been restored and turned into museums: the Hôtel Salé hosts the Picasso Museum, the Hôtel Carnavalet the Paris Historical Museum, the Hôtel Donon the Cognacq-Jay Museum, and the Hôtel de Saint-Aignan hosts the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme.
The Salon d'Uzès (1767), at the Musée Carnavalet. The Hôtel d'Uzès was originally built in the early 18th century. [1] In 1767, neo-classical architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux was commissioned to bring the residence up to date for its owner, François-Emmanuel de Crussol (1728–1802), 9th Duke of Uzès, who in 1753 married the daughter of the Duke of Antin. [2]
The Hôtel de Sully is a Louis XIII style hôtel particulier, or private mansion, located at 62 rue Saint-Antoine in the Marais, IV arrondissement, Paris, France.Built at the beginning of the 17th century, it is nowadays the seat of the Centre des Monuments Nationaux, the French national organization responsible for national heritage sites.