Hotel of Sully
The hotel of Sully is a private mansion of Style Louis XIII of the Marais, in the IVe district of Paris. It is located 62, Rue Saint-Anthony.
History
The controller of finances Mesme Gallet made build between 1625 and 1630, a private mansion with garden and orangery giving access to the Royale place - today Place of the Vosges - and located in full Marsh, with Paris, district then with the mode.
Maximilien de Béthune, first duke of Sully, former minister for finances and superintendent of the buildings of the king Henri IV, repurchased it the February 23rd 1634. The old man completed the decoration of it and lived his last years there. Its grandson Maximilien, second duke of Sully, made build an additional wing at the building in 1660, in the west of the home side garden. The hotel of Sully bears still today the name of this family which had it until the XVIIIe century. It passed then between the hands of various owners.
Become Investment property at the XIXe century, it accepted multiple additions and transformations to shelter trade, craftsmen and other tenants. Classified historic building as of 1862, the hotel was going slowly to reappear thanks to new more concerned owners of its conservation. It became state-owned property in 1944. A long campaign of restoration was then undertaken, and was completed by the repairing of the Orangerie in 1973.
It shelters, since 1967, the seat of the National bank of the historic buildings and the sites, become in 2000, Center of the national monuments. This public corporation under supervision of the Ministry for the Culture and the Communication manages more than one hundred national monuments, among most prestigious, and publishes dedicated works with the inheritance.
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