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The Hotel de Clermont is a private hotel built in 1733 in Besançon, probably by the architect Jean-Pierre Galezot for Jean-Jacques Pourcheresse d'Etrabonne, adviser to the Besançon Parliament. It occupies a parcel crossing between Grande Rue and Place Dauphine (now Jean Cornet Square), where its garden was originally located. The "U"-shaped building is entirely made of cut stone and features a richly decorated portal with man's heads and foliage.

In 1782 the garden was detached from the property to allow the construction of the Camus hotel. In the 19th century, the hotel belonged to the family of Clermont and was bought in 1862 by the Sisters of Charity, who turned it into a boarding school. Between 1907 and 1965, he became a clinic and then a retirement home from 1966 to 2010. The closure is due to the impossibility of carrying out work of upgrading to standards, due to protections in respect of historical monuments.

The monumental door and the façade on the hotel street have been protected since 1926 and 1937 respectively. The building, raised from one floor on the courtyard side in the 20th century, retains notable architectural elements such as a masonry staircase with a iron ramp and a vaulted basement. Two drawings from the municipal archives, dated 1705 and 1737, show the evolution of the fence wall of the garden.

The hotel also housed a family fresco made by Wyrsch in one of its salons, commissioned by the Marquis d'Amédor de Mollans and his wife, born Kirgener de Planta. These successive owners marked the history of this monument, now owned by an association and closed to the visit.

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