Hotel de Thellusson
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The Hôtel Thellusson was an extremely luxurious mansion in Paris , the Marie-Jeanne Girardot de Vermenoux (1736-1781), widow of the Swiss bank owner Georges-Tobie de Thellusson (1728-1776) from 1780 by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux on had a piece of land built that she had acquired in 1778 at No. 30 in the Rue de Provence (now the 9th arrondissement ). The entrance portal was reached by residents and visitors from Rue de Provence through a ten-meter high triumphal arch .
history
After the death of the widow Thellusson, her eldest son Jean-Isaac de Thellusson de Sorcy (1764-1828) had the building completed, which remained the property of the Thellussons even after the outbreak of the revolution , as they were Swiss citizens. However, they could not inhabit it again until 1797. Jean-Isaac sold it in 1802 to General Joachim Murat , who had married Bonaparte's youngest sister Caroline in 1789 , but - after he had been appointed Marshal of France in 1804 and Grand Duke of Berg in 1806 - against the Palais de l, which Napoléon owned 'Elysée and an additional sum of one million francs .
The emperor donated the city palace to the Russian tsar Alexander I , who initially housed the Russian embassy there under his adviser Charles-André Pozzo di Borgo , who hosted glamorous balls in this context. In 1818, Alexander I himself used it as a residence.
The Hôtel de Thellusson was demolished in 1824 as part of the extension of the Rue Laffitte to the Rue Chantereine (now Rue de la Victoire ).
literature
- Gabriel Girod de l'Ain: Les Thellusson, Histoire d'une famille du XIVème siècle à nos jours . Hérissey, Evreux 1977.
- Louis-Mayeul Chaudon, Antoine-François Delandine: Dictionnaire universel, historique, critique et bibliographique . Paris 1810.
- Émile Rivoire: Bibliography historique de Genève au XVIIIème siècle . Geneva 1897.
- Herbert Lüthy : La banque protestante en France . Paris 1959–1961.
