Hotel de Rothelin-Charolais

Hotel Rothelin-Charolais

The Hôtel de Rothelin-Charolais is a city palace ( hôtel particulier ) in the 7th arrondissement of Paris (101 rue de Grenelle), which Philippe von Orléans-Rothelin (1678–1715) had built between 1700 and 1704.

building

The two-storey building has a portico with Ionic columns on the front that support the balcony. Inside, the Mademoiselle de Charolais salon with its rocaille wood paneling has been preserved.

history

It is believed that the construction was planned by Pierre Cailleteau, known as Lassurance. The construction work was entrusted to the architect Audier.

Philippe enlarged the property by purchasing adjacent properties and had to sell the property to the Swiss banker Antoine Hogguer.

In 1736, Louise Anne de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Charolais, daughter of Louis III. de Bourbon, prince de Condé , the property, which is why it was henceforth called Hôtel Rothelin-Charolais.

From 1793 to 1860 it housed the Ministry of the Interior and from 1860 to 1869 the Austrian embassy. From 1870 to 1876 it was the seat of the State Council .

In the Fifth Republic , the building initially housed the French Ministry of the Interior . Since 1980 the building has been listed as Monuments historiques in the Base Mérimée . From 2007 to 2010 the building was the seat of the Ministry of Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Solidarity . The Hôtel Rothelin-Charolais has been used by various ministries and state authorities since 2011.

The government spokesman and confidante of President Emmanuel Macron , Benjamin Griveaux, also had his official seat here in 2019 . On January 5, 2019, the wooden portal of the Hôtel de Rothelin-Charolais was rammed by a forklift during a demonstration of the yellow vests movement .

The copy in Washington

The mansion built in 1932 by architect Horace Trumbauer for the daughter of Horace Elgin Dodge in Washington, DC is a replica of the Hôtel de Rothelin-Charolais. The French influence is attributed to the work of Trumbauer's chief designer Julian F. Abele , who studied in France. In 1945, the diplomat Robert Silvercruys bought the building for Belgium that would house his embassy.

literature

Jacques-François Blondel : Architecture Françoise, ou Recueil des Plans, Elevations, Coupes et Profils des Eglises, Maisons Royales, Palais, Hôtel & Edifices les plus considérables , Paris 1752, Volume 1, pp. 232–233 Digitized at e-rara