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The Hôtel de Choudens is a private hotel built at 21 rue Blanche in the 9th arrondissement of Paris at the beginning of the 20th century. Built in 1901 by architect Charles Girault, also designer of the Petit Palais, he is distinguished by his Baroque style. This monument was commissioned by Paul de Choudens, renowned music publisher, to become his private residence. Its architecture reflects the opulence and eclecticism in vogue among the Parisian elites of the time.

The Hotel de Choudens was protected in 1980 with the inscription of its facades, roofs, inside staircase (and its wrought iron ramp) and its winter garden. Since 1944, the building has hosted the École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre (ENSATT), marking its transition from a residential function to cultural and educational use. The approximate location, noted as "passable" (5/10), is also located at the edge of Drouot Street in the same district.

Charles Girault, major architect of the Belle Époque, prints his signature here by combining classic references and decorative audacity. The property, today communal, illustrates the evolution of Parisian private hotels: first symbols of individual prestige, they then become places dedicated to the public interest. The protected elements, like the winter garden, bear witness to the attention paid to the interior spaces, characteristic of the bourgeois houses of this period.

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