Hotel de Beauvais
The Hôtel de Beauvais is a 17th century Parisian aristocratic palace. Its main facade is on Rue François Miron, while the rear facade looks out onto Rue de Jouy. Both streets are in the 4th arrondissement .
history
The house was built by Antoine Le Pautre from 1654 onwards in part on the cellars of a previous Gothic building. The builders were Pierre de Beauvais and his wife Catherine Henriette Bellier , Anna's First Chamberlain , Queen of France as the wife of Louis XIII. , and regent until 1651 for her son Louis XIV.
Anna of Austria, Cardinal Mazarin , and Marshal de Turenne were standing on the balcony of the Hôtel de Beauvais when Louis XIV and Maria Teresa of Spain moved into Paris on August 26, 1660, to their already on June 9 in Saint-Jean -de-Luz to celebrate a closed marriage.
In 1755 the Hôtel de Beauvais was rented by Count van Eyck, the Bavarian ambassador to the French king, who hosted the young Mozart here from November 1763 to April 1764 on his first visit to Paris.
Confiscated during the French Revolution , it was rented out until the beginning of the 20th century. The city bought the house in 1943. In 2004 it was used to house the Cour Administrative d'Appel de Paris, the court of appeal for administrative matters.
The layout of the property, which was composed of four parcels when the house was built, was a unique challenge for the architect: 15 corners or sides, a semi-oval inner courtyard with walls that partly extend directly to the neighboring house and yet have (blind) windows are, five mascaron gates and a large staircase with wrought iron railing.
literature
- L'association pour la Sauvegarde et la Mise en valeur du Paris historique (ed.): L'hôtel de Beauvais .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 19 ″ N , 2 ° 21 ′ 30 ″ E