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Histoire de Paris

Hôtel d’Hallwyll
Echu à François d’Hallwyll, colónel du régiment de la Garde suisse; un premier hôtel avait été loué à Necker, banquier suisse, futur contrôleur généra ldes finances de Louis XVI. Sa fille Germaine, devenue plus tard baronne de Staël, y naquit en 1766. La même année, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux édifie l’hôtel actuel, déjà de style Louis XVI. La façade sur rue est inspirée de l’antique.

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Sur cour, le corps de logis est beaucoup plus simple, mais il présentait sur le jardin une colonnade dorique, aujourd’hui dénaturée. Le décor intérieur a été-dispersé: seul l’escalier demeure. Des hôtels construits à Paris par Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, l’hôtel d’Hallwyll est le seul à n’avoir pas été détruit.

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 is in front of Hallwyll House, a house built at the end of the 18th century and designated as a French historical heritage site.

The house 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

Hallwyll House
Falling to François d’Hallwyll, colonel of the Swiss Guard regiment; a first hotel had been rented to Necker, a Swiss banker, future controller general of Louis XVI’s finances. His daughter Germaine, who later became Baroness de Staël, was born there in 1766. The same year, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux built the current hotel, already in the Louis XVI style. The street facade is inspired by antiquity.

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On the courtyard, the main building is much simpler, but it had a Doric colonnade overlooking the garden, today distorted. The interior decor has been dispersed: only the staircase remains. Of the hotels built in Paris by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, the Hallwyll hotel is the only one not to have been destroyed.