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The hotel of Rothembourg is a Parisian mansion built in 1728 on a plot close to the Carmelite convent, at the request of the latter. The architect Victor-Thierry Dailly directs the realization. Originally designed as a report building, it is located at 5 rue du Regard and 68 boulevard Raspail, in the 6th arrondissement. His name comes from his first occupant, Conrad Alexandre de Rothembourg, a former Prussian officer who died in 1735.

Between 1736 and 1739, the hotel houses Antoine Caracciolo, ambassador of the king of Sicily, then Jean Sébastien de Kerhoent, Marquis de Coetanfao, until his death in 1746. His widow, Catherine de Rougé, remarried to the Duke of Elbeuf, lived there until 1753. The hotel was then rented to the Duke of Croÿ-Solre, Marshal of France, and then to his son, Anne-Emmanuel of Croÿ, until their emigration during the Revolution. In 1790 it became a national property and served as an annex to the National Warden to keep tapestries and books.

From 1806, the hotel was transformed into an orphanage by the Dames de Saint-Benoît. Retrieved by the state in 1828, it was sold in 1835. His garden disappeared in 1908 when Raspail Boulevard was drilled. Since 1963, its facades and covers have been listed as historical monuments, bearing witness to its 18th century architecture and its turbulent history.

The building illustrates the urban transformations of Paris, moving from an aristocratic residence to public use and then charitable. Its inscription in 1963 protects key elements such as the courtyard façade, the one overlooking Raspail Boulevard, and the vantals of the door on Rue du Regard.

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