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The Hotel de Grosbois, also known as Hotel Perreney de Grosbois, is a private hotel built in the first half of the eighteenth century in Besançon, Doubs department. It is located at 9 rue Girod de Chantrans, in the historic district of La Boucle. This building, originally owned by the Jesuits, was entirely rebuilt in 1735 by the architect Jacques François Tripard, after the old residence, acquired in 1698 by the Jesuit college, threatened to ruin. The Jesuits then rented the hotel to notable families, including the Perreneys of Grosbois, who gave him his current name although they were not owners.

Between 1761 and 1790, the hotel was occupied by Jean-Claude Nicolas and his son Claude-Irénée, both first presidents in the parliament of Franche-Comté. The latter made interior adjustments around 1765. The building consists of a house and a building of the communes, separated by a courtyard, with a vaulted coachway. The back façade of the house overlooks a terrace delimited by a wall, vestige of the old garden. After the Revolution, the hotel became an annex to Victor Hugo College, and its ground floor rooms are now used as classrooms.

Ranked a historic monument since 27 December 1996, the Grosbois hotel protects its facades, roofs, cochère alley, as well as remarkable interior elements: a masonry staircase with a wrought iron ramp, a panelled room with fireplace on the ground floor, and a decorated living room with a marble fireplace on the first floor. Although the stable court has disappeared, the grip of the garden remains partially legible, despite the extension of the buildings of the Pasteur High School. The building now belongs to the municipality of Besançon.

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