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The Hotel de Cambacérès, also known as Hotel de Braagelongne or Hotel de La Salle, is a Parisian mansion built between 1640 and 1663 by architects Guyard and Mercier. Sponsored by Thomas de Braagelongne, the first Speaker of Metz's parliament, he embodied 17th-century aristocratic architecture with his house body and wing in return. The entrance gate, surmounted by a broken arch, is one of the few original elements still visible on the street side, the interior having been profoundly redesigned in the 20th century by the Duchess of La Salle.

The hotel housed major historical figures, including Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès, archchancellor of the Empire, who lived there from 1818 until his death in 1824. In the 19th century he passed into the hands of the Duke and Duchess of La Salle, who gave him his present name. In 1911, part of the building was sold to Arbelot, and the hotel was cut in half during the drilling of Sébastien Bottin Street. Acquired by the Ministry of Finance, then sold in 2005 to the Carlyle group, it was finally bought in 2015 by the land LFPI Reim for more than 30 million euros.

Ranked a historic monument in 1938, the hotel of Cambacérès today retains part of its original structure, although its access remains reserved. Its history reflects the urban and political changes in Paris, from its construction under the Ancien Régime to its contemporary transformations. The building also bears witness to changes in property related to economic hazards, such as the bankruptcy of collector Gérard L., who briefly owned it.

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