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The Hotel de Lalauzière is a baroque-style mansion located in the city centre of Arles, built between the early seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is distinguished by its facade adorned with torso columns, a rare and remarkable architectural element. The building has been protected under the Historic Monuments since 1925, especially for its torso column door, symbol of its past prestige.

Commanded in the early 1600s by Bertrand II de Varadier de Saint-Andiol, knight of the Order of Malta in Provence, the hotel then moved to the Chartroux family, probably after the death without the heir of Saint-Andiol. The facade, completed around 1625-1630, will lose part of its original decoration, including the weapons of the Saint-Andiol. The Chartroux, the influential members of the nobility of dress and the fishing corporation of Arles, entered the consulate at the end of the seventeenth century. Jean Chartroux-Loinville, lawyer and second consul, owned it in 1682 and died in office in 1694, with a sumptuous funeral financed by the community of Arles.

In 1727, the Noble de la Lauzière family purchased the hotel for 7,000 pounds. Antoine de Noble de la Lauzière, his wife Marie-Marthe Bernard, and their son Jean-Baptiste-François, the first consul of Arles and Les Baux, resided there until the 19th century, giving their name to the building. The hotel then changed hands, sheltering apartments and shops before being bought in 2024 for a heritage development project.

Located at 42 rue de la République (former Rue Royale), the hotel is located in an area marked by aristocratic and bourgeois residences. Its rectangular plan, organised around a L-shaped courtyard, reflects the prestigious civil architecture of the time. Today, he embodies both a testimony of Arlesian social history and a remarkable example of Provencal Baroque.

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