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Hotel Réquy, also known as Hotel Lamothe, is a Toulouse mansion built in 1626 for Augier de Lamothe, a lawyer in Parliament. Built by Claude Pacot, it replaces two inherited houses and incorporates a mannerist portal decorated with griming atlantes. The 3rd floor windows, carved with bouquets and clusters, date from this first phase.

In 1657, the merchant Pierre de Réqui, capital of Toulouse, acquired and renovated the hotel. The building then passed to his son François, then to François-Raymond David de Beaudrigue, a capitoul involved in the Calas case (1761). In the 19th century, changes altered the façade, retaining only the portal and the high windows. These elements were protected in 1933, despite the municipal opposition.

The brick and stone portal, decentralized, presents carved consoles evoking late manerism. The 3rd floor windows, the only remains of the Lamothe Hotel, illustrate the transition between Renaissance and Baroque. The whole reflects the Toulouse civil architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries, marked by the influence of parliamentary and merchant elites.

Integrated in 1938 at Fabre School, the hotel loses its residential function. Its history mixes architectural heritage with local events, such as the Calas case, where its owner ordered the arrest of Jean Calas. The 1933 protections concern only the portal and the three upper windows.

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