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The hotel at 120 rue du Bac is a mansion built in the 4th quarter of the 17th century for a nobleman, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. It is identical to the neighbouring hotel (no 118), known as Clermont-Tonnerre, built between 1713 and 1715 by the architect Claude-Nicolas Lepas-Dubuisson and decorated by the sculptors Dupin and Toro. These two hotels were confiscated during the Revolution and sold in the early 19th century.

François-René de Chateaubriand lived there from 1838 until his death on 4 July 1848. A commemorative plaque pays tribute to him in the hotel. The building has been listed as a historical monument since May 10, 1926 for its facades on street, courtyard and garden, as well as for the decoration of the 18th century woodwork salon.

In the 1950s, the hotel was inhabited by Jean-Georges Rueff, consul, collector and art merchant, and his wife Marie-Paule. Today, there remains an architectural testimony of the aristocratic Paris of the early eighteenth century, marked by its revolutionary and literary history.

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