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Origin and history

The Hôtel des Maréchaux refers to a set of three buildings located at numbers 13, 15 and 17 of Rue Richer, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Built in the first half of the 19th century, these buildings reflect the architectural codes of the time, combining bourgeois elegance and urban functionality. Their arrangement around inner courtyards and their careful decoration, especially on the first floor of n°13, testify to a desire for prestige typical of Parisian private hotels of this period.

The facades on street and courtyard, their roofs, as well as some interior elements (scenes, courtyard floors, apartment decorations) were protected by a registration order under the Historic Monuments on 22 March 1990. This protection also concerns remarkable details such as the metal door of the check-pass of No. 15. Although owned by a private company, these buildings retain a strong heritage value, linked to their history and their representation of the affluent habitat under the Restoration or the Monarchy of July.

The location of the Hôtel des Maréchaux, in a district that was then undergoing urban transformation, underlines its role in the development of Haussmannian Paris before the major works of the Second Empire. Numbers 13, 15 and 17 form a coherent set, whose stylistic unity and the partial preservation of interior decorations offer a rare glimpse of bourgeois residences of that time. Today, their state of conservation and accessibility (close to the public, private use) raise the question of valuing the 19th century Parisian civil heritage.

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