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Heritage classified

Origin and history

The house located at 14 rue de Tournon, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, is an 18th-century building. This monument, whose street façade was inscribed by ministerial decree on 14 April 1926, bears witness to the Parisian civil architecture of that time. Its location in a central district of the capital, marked by refined urban planning, reflects the importance of private hotels and bourgeois houses in the urban landscape of the Enlightenment century.

In the 18th century, Paris was a major cultural and political home in Europe. The houses of this period, often built for the aristocracy or the rising bourgeoisie, served both as a residence and a place of social representation. Their architecture, marked by symmetrical facades and neat ornaments, illustrates the taste for elegance and the characteristic order of the era.

Although the available sources do not specify the specific history of this house, its inscription in the title of historical monuments underlines its heritage value in the Parisian urban fabric.

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