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Hotel Romé is a former mansion located in Rouen, built around 1525 in the style of the First Renaissance. Although the original sponsor remains unknown, the building is associated with Nicolas de Romé, lord of Fresquienne and king's adviser, who sold it to the royal administration in 1589. The latter established the Court of Auditors in 1591, marking its institutional importance. The hotel was classified as a historic monument in 1886, but underwent transformations in the 19th century and restoration in the 1920s by the Mutuelles du Mans.

The 1944 bombing almost completely destroyed the Hotel Romé. Only the remains of a courtyard façade, including a ground floor and a floor, are saved. Demonstrated and then reassembled in 1976 near the cathedral square, they are integrated into the Claude Monet Cathedral space after the demolition of the former congress hall. Today, these elements, decorated and partially restored, bear witness to the Renaissance architecture of Rouenne.

The loggia of the hotel, initially transformed into a chapel and then passing between the streets of Carmes and Saint-Romain, was remarkable for its vaults. Destroyed in 1944 and finally in the 1970s, only two decorated abutments remain. These remains, though fragmentary, illustrate the functional and architectural evolution of the building, from its construction to its partial destruction during the Second World War.

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