Paris Art Studies
– The Historic Marais
Hôtel
Lamoignon 1585-1612
by Louis Métezeau – 26, rue Pavée 75004
Originally built for Diana of France duchesse
d’Angoulême, illegitimate daughter of Henri II. Later (1658-1677) residence of
Guillaume 1er Lamoignon president of the Paris Parlement. Today library of the
history of Paris.
Hôtel
Carnavalet 1547-1560
by Nicolas Dupuis (?) – 28, rue de Sevigné 75003
Built for Jacques de Ligneris president of the Paris
Parlement. The name is the corruption of that of a later owner (1578) a Breton
noblewoman called Madame de Kernevenoy. Museum of the history of Paris since
1866.
Place
Royale (des
Vosges) 1605 – 1612 by Claude Châtillon and Louis Métézeau.
Built by order of Henri IV and inaugurated in 1612
in celebration of the betrothal of Louis XIII with Anne of Austria.
Hôtel
de Sully 1624-1629
by Jean Androuet du Cerceau – 62, rue Saint-Antoine 75004
Bought in 1634 by Maximilien de Béthune duc de Sully
former prime minister of Henri IV.
Hôtel
de Mayenne 1606-1617
by Jacques II or Jean Androuet du Cerceau – 21, rue Saint-Antoine 75004
The property was bought in 1605 by Charles de
Lorrainne duc de Mayenne who had the original house entirely rebuilt by du
Cerceau. The 2 balconies were added by his successors in 1645-50. The central
section of the upper floor was added by the architect Germain Boffrand in 1709
and rather well integrated into the old fashioned Henri IV architecture.
Sainte-Marie
de la Visitation 1632-1634 by François Mansart – 17, rue Saint-Antoine 75004
Built for the Sisters of the Visitation of the
Virgin Mary from Annecy who settled in Paris on the rue du Petit Musc in 1619, on the site of an older chapel offered to
them by Nicolas Bruant in 1621. Awarded to the Protestant church in 1802.
Hôtel
St Pol (remnants)
1361-1364 – corner of rues Saint-Paul and rue Neuve Saint-Pierre 75004.
Royal residence with extensive gardens built outside
the medieval walls by King Charles V.
Rue
Egihnard
75004. Early 17c bourgeois houses property of the order of the Hospitalières de
Sainte Anastase whose initials appear on the wrought iron of the
oculi.
Hôtel
d’Aumont 1649-1665
by Louis Le Vau and François Mansart – 7, rue de Jouy 75004
Originally residence of Antoine Scarron (uncle of
the writer Paul Scarron first husband of Françoise de Maintenon, the last mistress and wife of Louis XIV) later
considerably enlarged by Mansart for his son in law, Antoine duc d’Aumont.
Hôtel
de Beauvais 1655-1660
by Antoine Lepautre – 68, rue François-Miron 75004
Built for Catherine Henriette de Beauvais (née
Bellier) chambermaid of Queen Anne of Austria (wife of Louis XIII and mother or
Louis XIV) and her husband Pierre baron de Beauvais.
Medieval
houses 14th
and 15th centuries – 11
and 13, rue François-Miron 75004
Timber houses (à colombage) with gables restored in
1960.
