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The Hôtel de Gourgues is a historic monument located at 52-54 rue de Turenne, in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris. Built in the seventeenth century, it embodies the civil architecture of this period, marked by the emergence of private hotels in the capital. Its facades, both on street and courtyard, were inscribed in the Historical Monuments by decree of 9 January 1926, highlighting their heritage value and stylistic representativeness.

The location of the Hôtel de Gourgues, in the Marais, a neighbourhood that was then growing with the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie, reflects the growing urbanization of Paris under the Ancien Régime. At that time, private hotels served both as urban residences for elites and as places of social representation. Their architecture, often organized around an inner courtyard, met classical aesthetic codes while integrating practical elements related to worldly life.

Today, the Hôtel de Gourgues remains a testimony of this heritage, although its current use (municipal property, open or not to visit) is not specified in the available sources. The accuracy of its location is assessed as "a priori satisfactory", and its GPS coordinates confirm its address on the rue de Turenne. Data from the Merimée database and Monumentum make it a documented building, but the detailed history and possible historical occupants are not mentioned in the sources consulted.

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