Hôtel particulier

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The Hôtel de Soubise in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris

An hôtel particulier (French:

cour d'honneur (an entrance court) and the garden behind.[2] There are hôtels particuliers in many large cities in France
.

Etymology and meaning

The word hôtel represents the Old French "hostel" from the Latin hospitālis "pertaining to guests", from hospes, a stranger, thus a guest.[3] The adjective particulier means "personal" or "private".

The English word hotel developed a more specific meaning as a commercial building accommodating travellers;

modern French also uses hôtel in this sense. For example, the Hôtel de Crillon on the Place de la Concorde
was built as an hôtel particulier and is today a public hotel.

In French, an hôtel de ville or mairie is a

, now a museum, took its name when it was the naval ministry building.

Hôtel-Dieu ("hostel of God") is the old name given to the principal

Hôtel des Invalides
in Paris retains its early sense of a hospital for war wounded.

Examples

In Aix-en-Provence

In Beaucaire

In Blois

In Bordeaux

In Paris

In Rennes

In Toulouse

In Vesoul

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See also

References

  1. ^ Collins Robert French Dictionary
  2. ^ Michel Gallet, Les architectes parisiens du XVIIIe siècle, Paris;
  3. ^ Cassell's Latin Dictionary

Further reading

  • Monographs have been published on some outstanding Parisian hôtels particuliers.
  • The classic photographic survey, now a rare book found only in large art libraries, is the series Les Vieux Hotels de Paris by J. Vacquer, published in the teens and twenties of the 20th century, which takes Paris quarter by quarter and which illustrates many hôtels particuliers that were demolished during the 20th century.
  • Blanc, Olivier, Hôtels particuliers de Paris (1998)
  • Caylux, Odile et al. Les Hôtels particuliers d'Arles (2000)
  • Coquery, Natacha, L’hôtel aristocratique. Le marché du luxe à Paris au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 1998
  • Courtin, Nicolas, L'Art d'habiter à Paris au XVIIe siècle : L'ameublement des hôtels particuliers, Paris, Faton, 2011
  • Cros, Philippe,Hôtels particuliers de France (2001)
  • Gady, Alexandre, Les Hôtels particuliers de Paris, du Moyen-Âge à la Belle époque, Paris, Parigramme, 2007
  • Naudin, Jean-Baptiste et al., Hôtels particuliers de Paris: Visite privée (1999).
  • Papillault, Remi Les hôtels particuliers du XVIe siècle à Toulouse (Serie Memoires des pays d'Oc)
  • Favreau, Bertrand, Une promenade dans Bordeaux, les hôtels parlementaires, B550B, Mérignac, 2012, .

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