Hotel de Salm
The Hôtel de Salm (today Palais de la Légion d'honneur , dt. "Palace of the Legion of Honor ") is the seat and museum of the French Legion of Honor and the Order of Knights. It stands on the left bank of the Seine in Paris between Quai Anatole-France and Rue de Lille , west of the Musée d'Orsay .
history
The Hôtel de Salm was built between 1782 and 1787 according to plans by the architects Pierre Rousseau (1751–1829) and Antoine-François Peyre for Prince Friedrich III. Johann Otto zu Salm-Kyrburg (1745–1794). The Parisian residence of the Salm-Kyrburg family was soon a meeting place for the aristocratic upper class of pre-revolutionary France and later developed into the Club de Salm with the initiative of Madame de Stael at the time of the directorate . At the time of the revolution, the building was nationalized and on May 13, 1804, received its new function as the seat of the Legion of Honor, founded in 1802, and thus its name, which is still valid today.
In 1866 an extension was built along the newly laid out Rue de Solférino , which was destroyed by fire in 1871 during the Paris Commune . Shortly afterwards it was reconstructed with the help of famous artists such as the painter Jean-Paul Laurens . From 1922 to 1925, a further extension was built along Rue de Bellechasse for the Museum of the Legion of Honor ( Musée national de la Légion d'honneur et des ordres de chevalerie ).
influence
The hotel found many imitators. The California Palace of the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco , completed in 1924, is a replica of the Hôtel de Salm. Another copy is the Château de Rochefort-en-Yvelines built for the banker Julius Porges in Rochefort-en-Yvelines near Paris . In Haarlem , the Netherlands , the banker Henry Hope had the Welobile country house built based on the example of the Hôtel de Salm. Even Thomas Jefferson grew fond of the Hôtel de Salm and left the villa of his country estate Monticello in Charlottesville , Virginia , build upon the model. Emil von Oppenheim had his Palais Oppenheim built in Cologne in 1909 based on the example of the Hôtel de Salm.
Web links
- Musée national de la Légion d'honneur et des ordres de chevalerie (English / French)
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 37.3 " N , 2 ° 19 ′ 27.6" E