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The Ecquevilly Hotel, also known as the Grand Veneur Hotel, is a private hotel located at 60 rue de Turenne in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris. Built in 1637, it is distinguished by a facade adorned with bas-reliefs inspired by hunting, visible from the Rue du Grand-Veneur. Its history is closely linked to influential figures of the Ancien Régime, notably by its role in the worldly and aristocratic Parisian life.

Acquired in 1646 by Claude de Guénégaud, the latter extended the garden to Charles V's enclosure, removing part of the rue Saint-Pierre. In 1686, Chancellor Louis Boucherat, owner of the nearby Hesse hotel, bought it and made it embellished by André Le Nôtre, famous gardener of the king. The hotel took the name of Hotel du Grand Veneur in the 18th century, when Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, Prince of Lamballe and Grand Veneur of France, became its owner.

In 1733 Vincent Hennequin, Marquis d'Ecquevilly and captain general of the royal veneration, acquired the hotel and placed there a cartridge bearing his name and date of 1734. Confiscated during the Revolution, it was bought in 1795 by Joseph Seurrat de Guilleville, an industrialist and former mayor of Orleans. After his death, the hotel passed into the hands of his family before being sold in 1823 to the Franciscan ladies of Saint Elizabeth, who occupied him until 1901.

In the 20th century, the building became a repository for the Society of Reunited Shops, then an exhibition space for Jacob Delafon until 2007. Since 2014, it has been home to Emmanuel Perrotin's gallery of contemporary art. Ranked a historic monument in 1927, the Ecquevilly hotel illustrates the evolution of the uses of a Parisian mansion from the 17th century to the present.

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