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The Hôtel Matignon (French: Hôtel de Matignon, pronounced [otɛl də matiɲɔ̃]) is the official residence of the Prime Minister of France. It is located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, at 57 Rue de Varenne. The name Matignon is often used as a metonym for the governmental action of the French prime minister. [1]
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 ...
Allermoz-Wallez (Sylvie), « L’hôtel de Villeroy », dans Le Faubourg Saint-Germain : rue de l'université, Paris, Délégation à l’Action artistique de la Ville de Paris, Société d’Histoire et d’Archéologie du 7 e arrondissement, 1987, pp. 29–31.
The Hôtel de Montmorin houses the Ministry of the Overseas: Agency overview; Formed: 1710; 315 years ago () Type: Ministry: Jurisdiction: Overseas France: Headquarters: Hôtel de Montmorin Paris 7e, French Republic: Employees: 5,548 [1] Annual budget: €2.661 billion [2]
Episodes from the Life of a Bishop-Saint, by the Master of Saint Giles (c. 1500), showing the Gothic buildings of the old Hôtel-Dieu at right. Although tradition dates the founding of the Hôtel-Dieu back to Saint Landry, 28th bishop of Paris around 650, the first official records of an institution whose mission was to care for the destitute, infirm and sick date to 829. [1]
The Arc de Triomphe - monument at the center of the Place de l'Étoile, commemorating the victories of France and honoring those who died in battle; The Conciergerie - located on the Île de la Cité; a medieval building which was formerly used as a prison where some prominent members of the ancien régime stayed before their death during the French Revolution
The Hôtel de Lassay (French pronunciation: [otɛl d(ə) lasɛ]) is a private mansion located on the Rue de l'Université, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France. It is the current residence of the President of the National Assembly , [ 1 ] and adjoins the Palais Bourbon , the seat of the lower house of Parliament.
The Hôtel de Brienne (French pronunciation: [otɛl d(ə) bʁijɛn]) is an 18th-century hôtel particulier (a type of townhouse) at 14 Rue Saint-Dominique in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France.