Hotel de Soubise

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Hotel de Soubise
Gate of the Hôtel de Clisson from the 14th century

The Hôtel de Soubise is a hôtel particulier in Paris in the Rue des Archives in the 3rd arrondissement (Quartier Marais ), its entrance is on the Rue des Francs Bourgeois; It houses the Center historique des Archives nationales , the historical part of the French national archives . In this function, it now houses regular temporary exhibitions, as well as a permanent exhibition on the history of the national archives. Since December 2015 objects from the archives of the national museums have also been presented.

history

The connoisseur Olivier de Clisson (1336–1407) built the Hôtel de Clisson on the property from 1371 to 1375; from this building only the fortified gate system flanked by two towers remained. From 1553 the building was owned by the Guisen , whose heirs sold it in 1700 to François de Rohan , Prince of Soubise (1630-1712). He had the Hôtel de Soubise built on the site from 1705.

He commissioned the architect Pierre Alexis Delamair , who, like himself, came from Strasbourg to build this city palace . He created the now-known court of honor in place of the former riding arena and provided the new Corps de Logis with a magnificent facade. The portal of the Hôtel de Clisson became a side entrance and the main entrance (and the orientation of the hotel) was shifted by 90 ° to the Rue des Francs Bourgeois.

The prince's son and successor Hercule-Mériadec de Rohan Soubise (1669–1749), 2nd prince of Soubise, left the apartment du Prince on the ground floor and the apartment de la Princesse on the first floor from 1735 to 1739 on the occasion of his second marriage to Marie- Sophie de Courcillon (1713–1756) furnished by Germain Boffrand . They are among the most beautiful examples of the Rococo style ( Louis-quinze ) that have survived in Paris and have largely been preserved and restored. The sculptor brothers Lambert-Sigisbert Adam and Nicolas Sébastien Adam carried out part of the figurative stucco decoration of the rooms . François Boucher , Carle van Loo , Pierre Charles Trémolières and above all Charles-Joseph Natoire were commissioned with the paintings ( dessus-de-porte ) embedded in the wall paneling . Most recently, Charles de Rohan-Soubise , grandson of Hercule-Mériadec, used the hôtel particulier as his residence, until the line of the princes of Rohan-Soubise died out with his death in 1787.

During the French Revolution, the state rooms were cleared and served various purposes, until the hôtel became the property of the state by a decree of Napoleon of March 6, 1808. The emperor designated the building as the national archive. From 1847 to 1862 the École nationale des chartes was housed in the rooms of the hôtel particulier , which among other things used the salon oval on the ground floor as a lecture hall. Under the rule of Napoléon III. In 1867, archive director Léon de Laborde set up a museum with archival material in the Hôtel de Soubise for the first time, which today continues as the Musée des Archives nationales .

literature

  • Fiske Kimball : The Creation of the Rococo. Philadelphia Museum of art, 1943.
  • Jean Pierre Babelon: Le grand Appartement du Prince de Soubise au rez-de-chaussée de l'Hôtel de Soubise (Archives Nationales): histoire des états successifs jusqu'à la récente restauration. In: Cahiers de la Rotonde. No. 5 (1982), Paris, pp. 43-98.
  • Philippe Béchu, Christian Taillard: Les hôtels de Soubise et de Rohan-Strasbourg. Marches de construction et de decor. Center historique des Archives nationales, Paris 2004.

Web links

Commons : Hôtel de Soubise  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Permanent course. In: www.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved January 4, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Les hôtels de Soubise et de Rohan. (No longer available online.) In: www.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr. Archived from the original on January 4, 2016 ; accessed on January 4, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr

Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 38 "  N , 2 ° 21 ′ 30"  E