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The Hotel de la Princesse Mathilde is a private hotel built in 1812 by architect Bernard Poyet, on a land belonging to the financier Jacques-Louis-Guillaume Bouret de Vézelay (1733-1801), treasurer general of artillery and real estate speculator under the Ancien Régime. Located at 10 rue de Courcelles in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, it embodies the architecture and prestige of this period.

In 1818, the hotel belonged to the Marquis d'Aversens and was acquired in 1842 by Auguste Taigny, father of Edmond Taigny. From 1849 to 1857, he was rented to Princess Mathilde (1820-1904), Napoleon III's cousin, after his divorce with Count Anatole Demidoff. There she organized a fabulous reception, including for the Prince President, future Napoleon III, in a ballroom built especially in the garden.

In the 20th century, the hotel became the property of US General Charles Hitchcock Sherrill (1867-1936), US ambassador to Constantinople, who lived there until his death with his wife. After their death, the site was occupied by Baron Élie de Rothschild and his wife Liliane Fould-Springer in the 1970s. It has been listed as a historic monument since June 4, 1975, and it preserves the memory of these missing fascists.

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