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Origin and history

The hotel of L-Hospital, also known as the Pomponne hotel and then the Massiac hotel, was a mansion built around 1635 for Marc-Antoine Acéré, king's secretary. Located in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, in the 9th place des Victoires, it was acquired in 1673 by Simon Arnauld de Pomponne, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, who commissioned work under the direction of Jules Hardouin-Mansart. The place des Victoires was redesigned in 1685 to highlight this hotel, integrated in a composition in the form of d.

In 1758, the hotel became the property of Claude-Louis d'Espinchal, Marquis de Massiac, Vice-Admiral and Secretary of State for the Navy. It was handed over to his heir in 1770 and in 1789 it housed the Massiac Club, a group of slave settlers opposed to the abolition of slavery in the French colonies. This club played a major political role during the Revolution by blocking the application of human rights overseas.

After hosting the Caisse des comptes currentes (1796-1800), then the first headquarters of the Banque de France, the hotel was demolished in 1883 to give way to a Haussmann building. The latter, built between 1884 and 1886 by Henri Blondel, has been listed as a historical monument since 1928. The adjacent land at 12 rue du Renard was sold in 1900.

The Hotel de L的Hospital illustrates the urban transformations of Paris, from 17th century aristocratic arrangements to Haussmannian breakthroughs. Its history also reflects the political and economic stakes of its time, from the monarchy to the Revolution, to colonial slavery. The place des Victoires, designed to glorify Louis XIV, thus became a symbolic place of power and controversy.

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