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Hotel Ceineray is an 18th-century building located at 1 Sully Street in Nantes, in the Malakoff - Saint-Donatien district. Built after 1773, it was designed in symmetry with the Hotel Pépin de Bellisle (15 rue Henri-IV) to preserve the architectural harmony of Place d'Armes, today Place Maréchal-Foch. This project is part of a large urban plan led by Jean-Baptiste Ceineray, architect of the city between 1760 and 1780, which imposed strict rules of symmetry for facades and roofs.

The building is representative of the aesthetic requirements of the time, where the alignment and visual coherence of public and private buildings were a priority. Jean-Baptiste Ceineray, the first owner of the hotel, supervised his construction to meet the urban criteria he had defined himself. The facades and roofs on the street were protected by an inscription to historic monuments in 1954, thus recognizing their heritage value.

Hotel Ceineray illustrates the influence of municipal architects in the transformation of French cities in the Enlightenment century. In Nantes, this period is marked by planned urban development, where public buildings and private hotels reflect the economic and cultural ambitions of the rising bourgeoisie. The building remains today a testimony of that time, although its current use is not specified in available sources.

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