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The Hotel de la Sauldre is a historic monument in Saint-Malo, Brittany, built in the 18th century. This building is distinguished by its facades, roofs, skylights and chimney stumps, protected by a registration order dated 31 January 1942. The architect or contractor associated with this project is the engineer Garengeau, whose name remains related to this architectural achievement.

The precise address of the Hôtel de la Sauldre is 2 rue Feydeau and 4 rue d'Orléans, in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine (35). Although its GPS location is considered to be of medium accuracy (note of 5/10), the monument remains an architectural testimony of the eighteenth century in a city marked by its maritime and corsary history. The available data do not indicate whether the site is open to the public or whether it offers services such as visits or rentals.

Saint-Malo, in the 18th century, was a dynamic city, oriented towards maritime commerce and race (legal piracy). Private hotels, such as the Sauldre, reflected the prosperity of the local shipowners and bourgeois. These urban residences served both as housing and as a symbol of social status, often incorporating refined architectural elements, such as adorned windows or chimneys, characteristic of the period.

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