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The Jumilhac hotel, located in Brive-la-Gaillarde, is a mansion built in the 3rd quarter of the 17th century, in 1664 according to Louis de Nussac, for a rich merchant and consul of the city, Sieur Bachellerie de Neuvillars. The building is distinguished by its local sandstone architecture, with a main facade in fine Grammont sandstone and characteristic ground decorations. Its monumental double-fly staircase, typical of the noble mansions of the seventeenth century, preserves a painted coating probably from the nineteenth century. The hotel, originally equipped with communes, saw the latter destroyed in the 19th century to give way to a neo-Gothic building at the opening of Carnot Street.

The hotel owes its name to the marriage in 1691 of Guillemette de Bachellerie, daughter of the consul, with Jean-Baptiste Chapelle de Jumilhac, Count of Saint-Jean-Ligoure and lieutenant at the Presidial of Limoges. The building, which was acquired in 1741 by the Lasteyrie family of the Saillant, underwent several changes, including the destruction of its communes in 1894 for urban development. Despite a partial fire in 2001, it retains a remarkable classical elevation, 18th-century interior woodwork (probably 19th century) and a commemorative plaque. Among the eighteen urban hotels identified in Brive intra-muros, it is one of three to preserve a 17th century staircase.

Ranked as a Historic Monument since 2004 (stairs, roofs, facades and floor of the plot), the Jumilhac hotel illustrates the Correzian civil architecture of the modern era. Its vaulted basement in a cradle, its masonry skylights and its decor of bosses make it a rare testimony to the local heritage. The petitions against its demolition at the beginning of the twentieth century underline its historical importance, despite the alterations suffered over the centuries.

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