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The Hôtel de la Rose, built in 1537 for Laurent de Boves, receiver of the Valois estates, is a remarkable example of Renaissance architecture in northern France. The building, built on ancient 14th century vaulted cellars, combines exposed stone, wooden frame and slate cover. Its street façade, redesigned in the 17th and 18th centuries, retains a cochère door in basket handle and a polygonal staircase turret decorated with a cartridge dating back to the building. The name of the hotel comes from a carved rose, initially on the facade, moved in 1881 to the courtyard.

The inner courtyard houses a turret with a screw staircase, whose entrance is richly decorated. The bays and the door in the middle of the house body were modified later, while the ridges, adorned with animal motifs, and an acrotery (east pinion) testify to the attention paid to details. The hotel was acquired in 1676 by the family of La Granche, the king's councillors, who kept it until the Revolution. A funerary slab of Renée de Vieux-Pont (1560–1613) and the coat of arms of the Grimaldi (Family of Monaco), added in the 19th century, highlight its turbulent history.

Symbol of the artistic influence of Crepy-en-Valois, then capital of Valois, the Hotel de la Rose illustrates the influence of the Italian Renaissance in the region. Its protected elements (façades, roofs, cellars and wall of the rampart) were inscribed in the Historic Monuments in 2001. The building, built on five grounds, combines medieval heritage (caves) and Renaissance innovations, reflecting the social status of its successive owners, from financiers to magistrates.

The 17th century facade on the garden and the cochère door on the street, with its egg-eye, mark the architectural evolutions of the hotel. The reshuffles of the 17th and 18th centuries (baies, door in the middle of the hanger) show an adaptation to the tastes of later eras. The hotel, passed into the hands of Charlotte de Boves after the death of her father, then of La Granche (1676–22), embodies almost three centuries of local history, from the Renaissance to the Revolution.

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