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This building, located at 3 rue Garancière in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, is a typical example of civil architecture of the last quarter of the 18th century, during the reign of Louis XVI. Its sober facade, organized in two levels of rectangular bays and seven spans, reflects the aesthetic cannons of the era, with a central door surmounted by a dice-shaped cornice and a top cornice with flat modillons. The building is also distinguished by its location in front of the bedside of the Saint-Sulpice church, a district marked by Parisian religious and intellectual history.

The house housed Francisque Gay, one of the founders of Christian Democracy in France, emphasizing its importance in the social and political history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Ranked a Historic Monument in 1979 for its facades and roofs, the building is now a private property, testifying both to the Parisian architectural heritage and to the ideological movements that shaped modern France.

The accuracy of its location is estimated as fair (note 5/10), and its exact address, confirmed by the Merimée base, makes it a point of interest in the urban landscape of the 6th arrondissement. Available sources, such as Monumentum, highlight its dual heritage: architectural, with its Louis XVI characteristics, and historical, via its emblematic occupant.

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