Hôtel d'Aumont
Hôtel d'Aumont | |
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General information | |
Location | Paris, France |
The Hôtel d'Aumont is a former
History
At the beginning of the fifteenth century there was on part of this site a property at the Sign of the Die, belonging to the family of Cousinot, magistrates. In 1644 Michel-Antoine Scarron,
When the new building was completed in 1648, it was the duc d'Aumont who came to inhabit it, and he bought it outright from his father-in-law in 1656. For him it was enlarged and enriched by the architect
Later, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, interior modernizations resulted in the present Cabinet neuf, currently the office of the president of the tribunal administratif.
Four ducs d'Aumont in succession lived at the hôtel, until the death in 1743 of Victoire-Félicité de Durfort, the wife of Louis-Marie-Augustin d'Aumont (1709–1782), who had married her in 1727: he sold the hôtel d'Aumont in 1756.
Several proprietors followed in succession: Charles Sandrié, attached to the
From 1802 until 1824, the building, in its commanding public situation, was rented to house the mairie of the
In 1938, the Hôtel d’Aumont was purchased by the City of Paris, and restored and classified as a monument historique. Since 1959 the tribunal administratif of Paris has been housed in it. A radical restoration of the decayed framework was completed in 1964.[6]
Architecture
The street front in the rue de Jouy presents a symmetrical, austerely unornamented range of two-storey buildings with a
The garden front (pictured) combines the end pavilions in a unified corps de logis with a pair of slightly projecting pavilions flanking the central three bays to break the long façade.
Notes
- ^ Michel-Antoine Scarron, seigneur de Vaures et de Vaujour (Constance Tooth, "The Early Private Houses of Louis Le Vau", The Burlington Magazine 109 No. 774 (September 1967:510-518) p. 515, and plan.
- ^ Tooth 1967:515, and plan.
- ^ This phase of the house is documented in the series of engravings collected as the Petit Marot. (Tooth 1967:515).
- ^ "Marguerite Villedo et son trio d'hommes"
- ^ Charles Sellier, La Pharmacie centrale de France, (Paris: Pharmacie centrale de France) 1903; Sellier Anciens hôtels de Paris (1910), pp 161ff.
- ^ Under the direction of M. Le Tournon and M. Jouve (Tooth 1967:515 note 23).