Hôtel Guimard

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48°52′17.97″N 2°20′0.68″E / 48.8716583°N 2.3335222°E / 48.8716583; 2.3335222

The Hôtel Guimard was a private home located at 9

The Hôtel Guimard was nicknamed the "Terpsichore temple", in reference to Mlle Guimard (Terpsichore was the Muse of dance). The site featured a sculpture titled Terpsichore Crowned by Apollo, a low relief of the Muse of Dance riding a chariot "pulled by Amours surrounded by Bacchantes and Wildlife and followed by the graces of choreography".^[1][2]

Above the entrance was a ballet hall with a ceiling painted by Taravel, painter of the king.^[

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In a career of luxury, she offered three dinner parties a week, according to Edmond de Goncourt.^[

Mme Geoffrin; a third dinner was devoted to all the most ravishing and lascivious young women.^[3]

Mlle Guimard uniquely sold her hotel by holding a lottery, selling 2,500 tickets at 120 francs each. On 25 May 1785, the Countess of Lau won the hotel with only one ticket. Lau then sold the hotel for 500,000 francs to the banker Jean-Frédéric Perregaux. It was here that Jacques Laffitte began his career as a banker, under the tutelage of Perregaux.^[1][2]

Notes

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2. ^ ^{a b c} "Théâtres de société". homes.chass.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2020-05-03.
3. ^ "Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin". Archived from the original on 2008-12-16. Retrieved 2008-12-16.

Further reading

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• Braham, Allan (1989). "The 1770s: the patronage of Mlle Guimard and Mme du Barry; the saltworks of Arc and Senans; the theatre of Besançon; the Hôtel de Thelusson". The Architecture of the French Enlightenment. University of California Press.