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The house called Ostel Millet, also wrongly called "house of Condé", is a private hotel located in Montluçon, in the Allier department. Built in the 15th century by Guillaume and Olivier Millet, officers of the Dukes of Bourbon, it illustrates the bourbonese civil architecture of that time. The facade on the courtyard retains a staircase turret decorated with gothic decorations (accolades, pinacles, shield), while a stone staircase serves apartments renovated in the 18th and 19th centuries.

In the 15th century, the house was embellished by the Millet family of finance and justice officers serving the Dukes of Bourbon. Sold in 1573 by Anthoine Millet, it passed into the hands of the Charreton family throughout the 17th century. At the beginning of the 18th century, Jean-Baptiste Verrouquier de Saint-Argier added a south wing, followed by bay holes around 1765-1773 for Étienne de La Roche de Galmaud or his widow. An extension to the east, undated, completes the whole.

The facade on Notre-Dame Street was rebuilt in the mid-19th century in a neo-Gothic style by notary François Augustin Grozieux de Laplaine. The latter includes a statue of Saint Francis de Sales and a gothic dais flamboyant re-employment. The neogothic holes on the ground floor, made in 1998, preserve a 17th century door topped by a carved shield. The house, protected since 2003, bears witness to the architectural and social evolutions of Montluçon, the Dukes of Bourbon in the modern era.

The interior reveals a vaulted stone staircase, distributing decorated apartments in the 18th and 19th centuries. The staircase turret, adorned with Gothic motifs (Saint Andrew's Cross, ecus), and cellars with pool are among the protected elements. Despite its erroneous name of "house of Condé" in 1928, no historical connection with this princely family is attested. Rather, the monument reflects the social ascent of the local bourgeois families, from the Millet to the Charreton, via the Verrouquier and the La Roche de Galmaud.

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