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Hotel Lepas-Dubuisson is an architectural complex located at 151 bis rue Saint-Jacques in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. It includes a street building, intended for rent (with commercial premises on the ground floor and apartments on the floors), and a private hotel between courtyard and garden. This complex was built on a land dependent on the old Porte Saint-Jacques, abolished in 1684, and sold by the City of Paris in 1717 to architect Claude-Nicolas Lepas-Dubuisson. The latter, having gone bankrupt, the building under construction was seized and acquired in 1727 by Nicolas Le Camus, former Major of the City Guards, who completed the works.

The facades of the building and the hotel are decorated with mascarons, including a juvenile Apollo on the central window of the first floor. The coach pass, surmounted by a balcony supported by carved consoles, leads to a paved courtyard where there is a deep well, vestige of Montagne Sainte-Geneviève. Inside, a staircase with wrought iron ramp in Regency style and original woodwork testify to the architectural refinement of the era. The facades on the street, on the courtyard and on the garden, as well as the stairs, were inscribed in the historical monuments by order of 6 April 1981.

The hotel is also linked to the family history of Le Camus: Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières, architect, and Antoine Le Camus, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, were the sons of Nicolas Le Camus. The grille on the balcony bears the initials of Nicolas Le Camus (NC) and his wife Geneviève Carbonnet (GC), adding a personal touch to this iconic architectural ensemble of 18th century Paris.

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