Hotel Matignon

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Park and south facade
Platform and north facade

The Hôtel Matignon is a Hôtel particulier on the left bank of the Seine in Paris , in the Faubourg Saint-Germain district ( 7th arrondissement ). It serves as the official seat and residence of the French Prime Minister . In French media reports, Matignon is a metonymy for the office of prime minister.

history

The luxurious residential building had the future Maréchal of Montmorency, Christian-Louis de Montmorency, prince de Tingry (1675–1746), son of the Maréchal de Luxembourg , in place of a residence previously owned by the Baron von Pouancé by the architect Jean Build Courtonne .

Later owners were from 1723 Jacques III. de Goyon († 1725) and after his death his son Jacques IV. Francois Léonor de Goyon , who had acquired the title of Prince of Valentinois in 1715 through his marriage to the Monegasque hereditary princess Louise-Hyppolite Grimaldi and from 1731 to 1733 temporarily as prince Jacques I of Monaco officiated before, after the death of his wife, in favor of his son Honoré III. abdicated from Monaco and returned to the Hotel Matignon for the rest of his life.

The former ballerina and former lover of the Duke of Württemberg, Anne Eléonore Sullivan née Franchi, bought it from his grandchildren in 1804 , but she sold it to Talleyrand in 1808 , who owned it until 1814. In that year, it came into the possession of Napoleon Bonaparte , after the fall of the empire in exchange for the Elysee Palace to the Duchess of Bourbon († 1822), which her niece Adélaïde d'Orléans , sister of the future Louis Philippe inherited . Madame Adélaïde lived there until 1830, after which she rented the Hôtel particulier.

After King Louis Philippe had abdicated as a result of the February Revolution in 1848 and had to flee France and the House of Orléans now sold its French private property to a large extent, in 1852 the Marchese Raffaele de Ferrari, Duke of Galliera, acquired the Hotel Matignon from Antoine d'Orléans, duc de Montpensier , the king's youngest son. Ferrari's wife, the important patron Maria Brignole Sale De Ferrari , established herself here as the grande dame of Parisian society in the Second Empire , organized numerous festivals, welcomed famous artists, intellectuals and politicians and set up an important art collection, mainly with works by van Dyck and Rigaud . Adolphe Thiers , François Guizot , Prosper Mérimée and Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve were among her habitués , who frequented her palace, now also known as the Hôtel Galliera .

In 1888 she bequeathed the Hôtel Matignon to Austria-Hungary , whose government installed their ambassador in France here , until the building finally became the residence of the French Prime Minister in the 20th century .

park

The building has an extensive park that goes back to plans by Achille Duchêne from 1902. It has been a tradition at this park since the reign of Raymond Barre for every incumbent prime minister to plant a tree.

literature

  • Jacques Hillairet: Dictionnaire Historique des Rues de Paris . Les Editions de Minuit, Paris 1963. ISBN 2-7073-0092-6 .

Web links

Commons : Hôtel Matignon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ lexpress.fr: Valls planned son arbre dans le jardin de Matignon, un chêne "qui prend de la hauteur" of December 16, 2014

Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 16 ″  N , 2 ° 19 ′ 15 ″  E