Construction of the portal 1749 (≈ 1749)
Edited by the Vienna Gassot.
XIXe siècle
Remounting Place Rabelais
Remounting Place Rabelais XIXe siècle (≈ 1865)
Demoted and then reinstalled to #3.
1er mai 1933
Registration for Historic Monuments
Registration for Historic Monuments 1er mai 1933 (≈ 1933)
Official gate protection.
1975
Demountation and storage
Demountation and storage 1975 (≈ 1975)
Pieres stored at the Bourbon hotel.
1990
Transfer to Asnières-lès-Bourges
Transfer to Asnières-lès-Bourges 1990 (≈ 1990)
Storage at the municipal depot.
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui Aujourd'hui (≈ 2025)
Position de référence.
Heritage classified
Monumental portal: inscription by decree of 1 May 1933
Key figures
Famille Pelorde - First owners
Initial owners of the hotel.
Famille Bengy - Intermediate owners
Owned the hotel before the Gassot.
Gassot de la Vienne - Portal sponsors
The gate was built in 1749.
Origin and history
The monumental portal of the Gassot-de-La-Vienne hotel, originally located on Rue Jacques-Coeur in Bourges, dates from the 2nd quarter of the 18th century. It was built in 1749 by the Gassot family of Vienna, the last owner of the hotel, who succeeded the Pelorde and Bengy families. This portal, emblematic of the classical style of the time, originally decorated a private hotel today gone.
In the 19th century, the portal was dismantled from its original location and went back to 3 Rabelais Square, where it remained until 1975. That year, he was again dismantled, and his stones were stored successively at the Bourbon hotel, then at the municipal depot of Asnières-lès-Bourges in 1990, during renovation work. Despite these movements, the gate retains its status as a historical monument, protected by a registration order of 1 May 1933.
Today, the portal is no longer visible in situ: its elements are preserved by the city of Bourges, waiting for a possible restoration or resettlement. Its history reflects the hazards of preserving the urban heritage, between disassembly, restoration and temporary storage. The hotel itself, once owned by local aristocratic or bourgeois families, illustrates the social and architectural evolution of Bourges in the 17th and 18th centuries.
