Hôtel de Soubise
The Hôtel de Soubise is a city mansion entre cour
et jardin, located at 60 rue des Francs-Bourgeois, in the
The Hôtel de Soubise was built for the Prince and Princess de Soubise on the site of a manor house built in 1375. On March 27, 1700, François de Rohan, prince de Soubise bought the Hôtel de Clisson and asked the architect Pierre-Alexis Delamair to remodel it completely. Works started in 1704.
Interiors by Germain Boffrand, created about 1735-40 and partly dismantled, are accounted among the high points of the rococo style in France (Kimball 1943: 178). They constituted the new apartments of the Prince on the ground floor and the Princesse on the piano nobile, both of which featured oval salons looking into the garden.
Since a Napoleonic decree of 1808, this residence has become the property of the State. Nowadays it hosts the Musée de l'Histoire de France (Museum of French History) and a part of the French National Archives.
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References
- Fiske Kimball, 1943. The Creation of the Rococo (Philadelphia Museum of art)
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