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Origin and history

The Hotel de Gondrecourt, located in Saint-Mihiel in the Meuse, has its origins at the end of the 16th century, although its current structure mainly reflects the transformations of the 18th century. Originally built for Didier Galliot, clerk of the Grands Jours (annual court) and named owner in 1583, the hotel succeeds a line of local noble families, including the Gondrecourt (mentioned in 1424), the Gynecourts, or the Wassenburgs. Its original U-shaped architecture with outbuildings surrounding a courtyard bears witness to a classic party for a seigneurial house of the modern era.

At the beginning of the 18th century, Gaspard-Mathieu de Gandrecourt (1679–1757), provost of Saint-Mihiel and seigneur de Maizey, undertook important works: uplifting of the attices, removal of allegations from the windows on the courtyard side (object of a dispute in 1708 with the Ferronier Robin), reperceiving of the posterior facades, and rebuilding of the staircase in the right wing. These modifications, dating from the first quarter of the 18th century, transform the hotel into a building more in line with the architectural canons of the period, mixing Renaissance heritage and Baroque adaptations.

The 19th century saw more discreet interventions under the Larzillière era (owners of the year VIII to 1977), such as the construction of the fence wall and the gate, or partial reconstructions of the elevations on courtyard. The hotel, registered with the Historical Monuments in 1992 for its structural elements (logis, outbuildings, garden), thus illustrates the evolution of a Lorrain aristocratic home, between medieval judicial functions and modern residential ones.

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