Hotel de Boisgelin
The Hôtel Boisgelin (also Hôtel de La Rochefoucauld-Doudeauville ) is a city palace on Rue de Varenne in the 7th arrondissement on the Left Bank of Paris . A few meters away is the Hôtel Matignon , the official residence of the French Prime Minister. The Hôtel Boisgelin has been the seat of the Italian Embassy in France since 1938 .
history
The building was built in 1732 according to plans by Jean-Sylvain Cartaud for the banker and former secretary Louis XV. , Gérard Heusch de Janvry. The property was owned by the Cooperative of the Daughters of Christian Love of St. Vincent de Paul and was leased for 45 years. In 1778 the house was inhabited by Camille de Lorraine, Prince of Marsan. In 1779 it was taken over by canon Marie de Boisgelin and, from 1782, her brother, Jean-de-Dieu-Raymond de Boisgelin de Cucé , Archbishop of Aix-en-Provence , after whom the palace is named today. From 1792 several changes of ownership followed. In 1841 Louis-Sosthène de La Rochefoucauld, duc de Doudeauville, married the widow and owner Angélique Henriette de La Brousse de Vertrieblac. In 1859 she rented the first floor of the palace to a son from her husband's first marriage, Marie Charles Gabriel Sosthène de La Rochefoucauld, duc de Bisaccia. The latter bought the palace in 1876 and then had it extended and rebuilt in the neo-Gothic style by the architect Henri Parent . In 1937 the Hôtel Boisgelin was acquired by the public Caisse des dépôts et consignations . In 1938 it was made available to the Italian state on the basis of an empyteuse , which in return left the Palazzo Farnese in Rome to France . The Italian embassy was in front of it in the neighboring Hôtel de Galliffet ( ⊙ ); the Italian cultural institute is housed there today .
literature
- Erminia Gentile Ortona, Maria Teresa Caracciolo, Mario Tavella: L'Ambassade d'Italie à Paris. Hotel de la Rochefoucauld Doudeauville. Skira, Milan 2009. [not evaluated]
See also
- List of monuments historiques in the 7th arrondissement (Paris)
- List of Italian ambassadors in France
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 15 ″ N , 2 ° 19 ′ 19.5 ″ E