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This private hotel, located in Rouen, was built in 1845 by Lebouvier, a Rouenese merchant. It perfectly illustrates the bourgeois architecture of the 1840s, with a ground floor dedicated to receptions and a floor reserved for rooms. The attic and basements housed the service spaces, while the courtyard and the commons ( stables, sheds) completed the whole.

During the Second World War (1940-1944), the German army occupied the area, transforming the cellars into a shelter and erecting two blockhouses in the garden. One of them was converted into a basin after the war. The building, surrounded by a vast English garden with lawn and rock, is representative of 19th-century wheeled elite private hotels.

Professor Chaline's analysis (1982) highlights his typical social organization: representation spaces for owners, service areas for domestic workers. The whole, including the garden and the walls of the enclosures, was inscribed in the Historical Monuments by order of 21 November 2002.

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