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The Hotel Liébert de Nitray is a mansion built in Tours, in the Old Towers district, during the 4th quarter of the 18th century. It was built at the site of the former convent of the Annonciade, closed in 1777, for Gilles Lefebvre, ordinary war controller, and his wife Catherine Thoisnier. The architect Pierre Meusnier, also in charge of the hotel located at 19 rue Émile Zola, ensured its design. The main building, completed by a wing in return for square, delimits a courtyard of honour closed by a wall pierced by a cochère door. A concierge house, contemporary of the building, occupies the northeast corner of the courtyard.

The hotel bears the date of 1781, corresponding to its construction after the acquisition by Gilles Lefebvre of two sites of the convent in 1778 and 1779. These plots, purchased for 4,799 and 7,150 pounds, allowed the southern alignment of the present Place François-Sicard. The building was later occupied by surgeon Sébastien Paul Guillaume-Louis between 1911 and 1957. Since 9 September 1946, its facades, roofs, the north fence wall and the concierge have been protected as historical monuments.

The Hotel Liébert de Nitray illustrates the civil architecture of the late eighteenth century, marked by pilasters surrounding the central span and a triangular pediment on the northern facade. Its interior organization, mentioned in the archives, included a living room, two bedrooms, an antechamber, a cabinet and a staircase. The site, now located 15 Place François-Sicard, bears witness to the urban transformation of Tours after the closure of the convents under the Ancien Régime.

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