Hotel of Hallwyll
Hotel of Hallwyll
The hotel of Hallwyll is located, 28 Rue Michel the Count, in the IIIe district of Paris, in the district of the Marais. It is with the site of a house having belonged to the goldsmith Guillaume Villain. It was built at the end of the XVIIe century, then was altered by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux. He is the only remaining witness of the Parisian domestic architecture built by this great architect. The hotel of Hallwyll was regarded as of the end of the XVIIIe century by the contemporaries as one of the private mansions most modern of the Marais.
Ledoux receives the order in 1766 of Franz-Joseph d' Hallwyll, colonel of the Swiss Guard and his wife Marie-Therese Demidorge for the transformation of the hotel Demidorge, old hotel of Bouligneux.
The architect benefits from the old building on street thanks to a symmetrical and monumental composition of the frontage treated in embossings with tables with the manner of the Italian Renaissance and whose axis is underlined by a gate with Tuscan columns that surmounts a tympanum decorated with Graces. Behind this body of buildings containing the commun runs, a first court shelters the main building. Ledoux also deploys a true talent of landscape architect for the design of the garden. Ledoux designs, as a garden, an atrium bordered of galleries with doric columns at the bottom of which two reversed ballot boxes pouring of the water torrents (topic preceding the Royal saltworks of Arc-and-Senans) frame a niche which shelters a Grace. One decor done in trompe-l'oeil painted on the blind wall of the convent of the Carmelite nuns giving on the Street of Montmorency.
The stables of this hotel, could accommodate to 18 horses. It sheltered the Necker family, at the end of the XVIII° century, then was acquired in 1790 by the prince of Esterházy. In 1818, it became the property of François Guyot of Villeneuve, which had bought it to the Lefebvre banker. He was the last owner to have lived the hotel which with its death, was stripped of its works of art, and was delivered to the trade.
He found rather recently his gantry and his gardens of the XVIIIe century. Though sober it is one of the most elegant hotels of the time of Louis XVI. With not missing, the monumental door, ironwork, low-reliefs under the vault of entry, the departure of the staircase.
Madam de Staël was born to with it in 1766.
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