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Hotel Bonnet de la Beaume, also called Bonnet de la Baume, is a private hotel located at 2-2bis rue Goyrand and 6 rue Frédéric Mistral in Aix-en-Provence. Built in 1786 by architect Joseph Routier for Joseph Philippe Bonnet de la Baume, adviser to the Parliament of Provence, it replaces the former Hôtel de la Monnaie. Completed in 1789, his owner could never profit from it, forced into exile by revolutionary unrest, and he died on the scaffold in Lyon.

The Louis XVI style hotel features a sober and classic façade. It is organized around a calade courtyard and a private garden, accessible by a monumental gate. The stairwell, with its wrought iron ramp, is a masterpiece of the time. The property changed hands in the 19th century, including the doctor Jean-Gaspard Goyrand, whose name was given to the street.

Ranked a historic monument in 1990, the hotel remains a private property but is open to the public daily. Its homogeneous architecture, restored by its owners, makes it a remarkable example of the Aixian aristocratic habitat of the late eighteenth century.

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