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The Hotel de la Vicomté de Dieppe is a building built in 1760, during the second half of the eighteenth century, to house the headquarters of the Viscounty, a place dedicated to the collection of taxes. Located at 35-37 Pier Henri-IV, it embodies the civil architecture of this period, mixing brick and stone. Its administrative role reflected the tax organization of the Old Regime, where the vicomtés served as intermediaries between the royal power and local populations.

During the French Revolution, the hotel was confiscated and sold as a national property, marking the break with the institutions of Ancien Régime. This change in status illustrates the political and social upheavals of the time, when the goods of the clergy and nobility were redistributed. In 1991, its facades, roofs and the west fence wall were listed as historic monuments, recognizing its heritage value.

Today, the building bears witness to the administrative and architectural history of Dieppe, a major port city in Normandy. Its inclusion in the title of historical monuments makes it a key element of local heritage, linked to both seigneurial justice and pre-revolutionary fiscal management. The Seine-Maritime, a department to which Dieppe belongs, thus retains a tangible vestige of its institutional past.

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