[An illustration of a ship, symbolizing the symbol of Paris]

Histoire de Paris

Hôtel Radix de Sainte-Foix
Sur des terrains autrefois propriété des religieux Mathurins, le fermier général Charles Marin-Delahaye fit construire vingt-huit hôtels, à la fin du XVIlle siècle, par l’architecte Aubert. Ici vécurent en 1780 le financier Radix de Sainte-Foix, et Mirabeau en 1789. Un jardin-terrasse orné de treillages, de pyramides, d’arcs de triomphe et de fausses ruines destinées à cacher les cheminées occupait le toit jusqu’au XIXe siècle. Deux petits ponts chinois enjambaient un ruisselet qui distribuait l’eau dans la salle à manger et, depuis la terrasse, dans les salles de bains de limmeuble. En face, au n°2, l’hôtel d’Aumont présente la même façade en rotonde.

[Portrait of Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau]

Cet autre vestige de l’enorme opération immobilière de Marin-Delahaye fut habité, à partir de 1785, par le maréchal d’Aumont, duc et pair de France, qui rallia la Révolution avec enthousiasme et reçut en récompense le commandement de la garde nationale.

One of the series of signs describing historical places in Paris. The signs were placed starting in 1992 and are also called sucettes Starck (Starck’s Lollipops) after Philippe Starck who designed them.

The sign depicts the house where the financier Maximilien Radix de Sainte-Foix lived, after whom the house is named, and Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, a French statesman during the French Revolution, whose portrait appears in the center of the sign

The building was photographed on the same day Click for a larger image

The illustration in the center of the sign is shown here at magnification Click for a larger image

Translation of the text on the sign:

[An illustration of a ship, symbolizing the symbol of Paris]

History of Paris

Hôtel Radix de Sainte-Foix
On land formerly owned by the Mathurins monks, the farmer general Charles Marin-Delahaye had twenty-eight hotels built at the end of the 18th century by the architect Aubert. Here lived the financier Radix de Sainte-Foix in 1780, and Mirabeau in 1789. A garden terrace decorated with trellises, pyramids, triumphal arches and false ruins intended to hide the chimneys occupied the roof until the 19th century . Two small Chinese bridges spanned a rivulet which distributed water into the dining room and, from the terrace, into the bathrooms of the building. Opposite, at number 2, the Hôtel d’Aumont has the same rotunda facade.

[Portrait of Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau]

This other vestige of the enormous real estate operation of Marin-Delahaye was inhabited, from 1785, by Marshal d’Aumont, Duke and Peer of France, who rallied the Revolution with enthusiasm and received as a reward the command of the National Guard .