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The Bourrienne Hotel, located at 58 rue d'Hauteville in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, was built between 1787 and 1793 by Justine Segard, wife of Préponnier de Bazin. At that time, the suburb of the Faubourg Poissonnière was rapidly urbanizing. Even before its completion, the hotel changed hands several times and was acquired in 1792 by the husbands Lormier-Lagrave, who donated it to their daughter Fortunée Hamelin, wife of Antoine Hamelin, general supplier of the armies. Fortune Hamelin, emblematic figure of the Executive Board and the Consulate, holds a renowned salon, frequented by Napoleon Bonaparte, Josephine de Beauharnais and Madame Tallien.

In 1798, the hotel was sold to Louis Prévost, then bought by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, private secretary and friend of Bonaparte. He undertook major transformations under the direction of architect Étienne-Chérubin Leconte. Bourrienne, despite political uncertainties, maintained a brilliant salon until 1824, before the revolution of 1830 ruined his fortune. The hotel was then sold several times, and in 1826 Henri Duponchel worked on a neo-pumpian decor.

In the 19th century, the hotel passed into the hands of Charles Tuleu, who installed a foundry of printing characters in the garden. He remained in the same family until 2015, when he was bought by the entrepreneur Charles Beigbeder. The latter restores it entirely to make it the seat of its activities and install there the Bourrienne Paris X shirt house, founded in 2017. Today, the hotel, although private, retains a remarkable management style décor and furniture.

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