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Origin and history

The Carcano hotel, also known as the Landolfo-Carcano Hotel, is a private hotel built in 1867 by architect Charles Rohault de Fleury. It is located at 1, rue de Tilsitt, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, and is part of the project of the twelve hotels of the Marshals, designed by Jacques Hittorff in 1853 under Napoleon III during the development of the Star (today place Charles-de-Gaulle). His initial sponsor, Anne-Marie Adèle Caussin (called Madame de Cassin), married Marquis Landolfo de Carcano in 1889, whose name remained associated with the hotel.

The hotel houses a rich interior decoration, including allegorical paintings by Charles Chaplin, Pierre-Victor Galland and Alexis-Joseph Mazerolle. Originally, the Marquis de Carcano also exhibited his private collection, including works by Rembrandt, Rubens, Rodin and Frémiet. These collections were dispersed after the death of the Marquise in 1921. The hotel, partially classified as historical monuments in 1976 for its architectural decorations and elements, then became the seat of the Embassy of Qatar in France.

The Landolfo-Carcano hotel illustrates Haussmannian architecture and the splendor of Parisian private hotels in the Second Empire. Its history reflects the urban transformations of Paris under Napoleon III, as well as the artistic patronage of the nineteenth century elites. The decorations preserved, despite the dispersion of the collections, bear witness to its past prestige.

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