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The Mortier Hotel in Sandreville, also known as the Mortier Hotel or the Sandreville Hotel, is a Parisian mansion built in 1585 on a plot owned by Étienne Barbette, the provost of Paris merchants. This land, acquired from the heirs of Diane de Poitiers, is loti by Claude de Mortier, notary and secretary of the king, who has built there a house larger than the hotel Carnival and neighbouring. The hotel is then divided into two parts: the western part, at number 26, is inherited by Marie Mortier and her husband Pierre Le Berche, who built a new hotel there in 1630.

In 1638, Alphonse Le Berche de Sandreville, ruined, gave the hotel to Guillaume Cornuel, treasurer general of the wars, and his wife Anne Bigot. The residence changed hands several times, in particular to the Poncet and Vallier-Le Mairat families, who in 1767 undertook major works: the reconstruction of the facade on street and the elevation of a floor. Confiscated and sold during the Revolution, the hotel still had five owners in the 19th century, including a congregation which temporarily installed the school of the Francs-Bourgeois between 1843 and 1870.

Ranked a historic monument in 1981, the hotel was restored between 1983 and 1984. Today, it is a private property not open to visit, although its courtyard is sometimes accessible on weekdays. Its history reflects the architectural and social transformations of Paris, from the wars of Religion to the Revolution and the 18th century literary fairs.

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