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The hotel is a private hotel built in 1775 by architect Guillaume Trepsat for entrepreneur Jean-Mathias Pasquier. Located at No 46 of the Rue de Bourgogne in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, it is designed as the symmetrical of its neighbour, Hotel de Praslin (No 48). Its facades on courtyard and garden, decorated with ionic pilasters and monumental staircase, reflect the classic 18th century style. The building owes its name to the Earl of Anzely, the first owner of the Damascus family.

During the French Revolution, the hotel was seized and sold in 1799 (17 pluviôse an VII) by the departmental administration to three Trabuchy brothers and to the former conventional Nicolas-Marie Quinette. In 1808 he was bought by General Nicolas Charles Oudinot and then passed on to his son, the 2nd Duke of Reggio. These changes of ownership mark his transition from the hands of the aristocracy to those of post-revolutionary military and political figures.

In the 20th century, the hotel took on a public office: on 18 June 1908, it hosted the inauguration of the Central State Laboratory for the Suppression of Fraud, then occupying the entire building. Its facades on courtyard and garden are inscribed in historical monuments by decree of 29 March 1926, recognizing their heritage value. Today, the building reflects both the 18th century Parisian residential architecture and the institutional transformations of modern France.

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