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Origin and history

Hotel de Montmorin is a private hotel located in 3 Place des Vosges (formerly Place Royale), in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, in the heart of the Marais district. Built on the site of the stables of the Hotel des Tournelles, this land was offered by King Henry IV to Simon Le Gras de Vaubercey, secretary of the commandments of Anne d'Autérie, and then passed on to his son Nicolas Le Gras, who raised the present hotel there. The latter, also at the Queen's service, bequeathed the building to his daughter Anne Le Gras de Vaubercey, wife of François Gaspard de Montmorin, Marquis and Grand Louvette de France.

The hotel changed hands at the beginning of the 18th century, passing to Nicolas Huguet de Sémonville, adviser to the Parliament of Paris, whose daughter Catherine, through her successive marriages with the Earl of Estrades and then the Count of Saint Brisson, perpetuated the aristocratic lineage linked to the place. In 1776, the hotel was acquired by Marie Anne Loyat, widow of a councillor in Parliament, marking the transition to a bourgeois occupation. Its remarkable elements, such as the wrought iron staircase or facades, were protected in the 20th century by classifications to historical monuments (1953 and 1957).

Beyond its architectural history, the Hôtel de Montmorin will later house cultural figures, including actor Jean-Claude Briely (until 1984) and mathematician Rémi Brissiaud (1949–2020). These modern occupations underline the sustainability of this place, a witness to the social and artistic evolutions of Paris since the seventeenth century.

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