Hotel of the archbishops of Direction

The hotel of the archbishops of Direction is located in the IV {{E}} district of Paris.

Paris becomes archbishop's palace only in 1622. Before this date, Paris depended on the archbishop's palace of Sens. It is Tristan de Salazar, archbishop of Direction (1474-1518) which makes destroy the hotel of Jean d' Hestoménil given by the king Charles V to the archbishop's palace of Direction to be the Parisian residence of its archbishop and to rebuild in his place between 1475 and 1519 the current building.

It shelters today the Bibliothèque Forney , since 1961 devoted to the fine arts (Architecture, Peinture, Sculpture, Dessin, Gravure), to decorative arts (movable Céramique, costumes, ironwork, , goldsmithery, Tapisserie, Verrerie, Vitrail) and to the Artisanat and the techniques (building, Menuiserie, Publicité, Textile S, Typographie). It also gathers several services such as the funds iconographic where one can consult publicity since the years 1950, more than one million old and new postcards on very many topics, prints, slides and wallpapers; service of the special funds which gathers all the catalogs of exposures of sale of France and the foreign countries and service of the periodicals which relates to all the reviews since their creation until our time (all styles, and in various languages).

External bonds

www.paris.fr
Company of the friends of the Library Forney

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