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The hotel Chéret, also known as the Benoît de Sainte-Paulle hotel, is a mansion built between 1773 and 1778 on the plans of architect Nicolas Lenoir, on a plot acquired in 1772 by Claude-Martin Goupy, architect and real estate speculator. This land, formerly occupied by vegetable gardens, was levelled to compensate for a height difference of 1.5 to 2 meters with the surrounding streets. Returned in 1776 to Jean-François Caron, treasurer of the Order of the Holy Spirit, the hotel was enlarged by architect Antoine-François Peyre before Caron, imprisoned for fraudulent bankruptcy in 1779, gave it to François-Nicolas Lenormand, who made new changes.

After Lenormand's death in 1783, his widow, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, continued to reside there with their daughter until 1795, when the hotel was sold to Louis-Jean-Baptiste Chéret. He praised him to General Ney, who celebrated his marriage there in 1802. The hotel then changed hands several times, notably in 1820, when Cheret sold it to banker Jonas-Philip Hagerman. During the 19th century, his garden was gradually reduced, disappearing entirely in 1872. The facades on the street and on the courtyard, as well as that on the back of the courtyard, were inscribed in the historical monuments in 1927.

In the 20th century, the hotel will house the study office of Farman factories during the Second World War, including the future general Jacques Collombet. After 1946, it was used by Air France and then bought by the City of Paris to be converted into social housing. Its architecture, typical of Parisian mansions, includes a two-winged main building body, an ion column perron, and a 45-metre deep courtyard, reflecting the 18th-century fascist.

The original garden, which is now extinct, extended for nearly 100 metres to the rue d-Hauteville and had a gently sloping bowl, vestige of the levelling of the marshy terrain. The successive modifications, such as the addition of a mansard roof in the 19th century, testify to the hotel's adaptations to the needs of its owners, mixing aristocratic heritage and modern usages.

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