Nicolas Beaujon

Nicolas Beaujon is a French financier of the 18th century born with Rouen in 1718 and died in 1786.

Originating in Bordeaux, Beaujon, receiver of finances of the general information of Rouen, had strongly grown rich in speculations on the grains, followed judicious financial placements. He became banker of the court, farmer general and to advise State under Louis XV. He founded and equipped in 1784, in the Faubourg of Rolls, with Paris, a hospital.

The Girardin architect had built for Nicolas Beaujon the Beaujon Madness, on the field of Chartreuse de Beaujon which occupied twelve hectares between the suburb of Rolls and the Star (with the crossing of current the street Balzac and of Friedland.C' was an architecture with the mode of the time: a madness with small gallant apartments, secret staircase, hidden door where Balzac made arrange its last palate (to the 22 of the street Fortuné).

Beaujon added to it an old people's home intended for the poor children whose entry is currently with 208 rue du suburb Saint Honore.

In 1773, it bought the hotel of Évreux (current Elys3ee palace), which it preserved until August 1786, date on which it sold it in life annuity with Louis XVI. It made transform the hotel by the architect Etienne-Louis Boullée. It in particular made prolong the wing of the Small Apartments towards the Fields-Elysées and arrange a gallery to expose its superb collection of tables, among which the Gipsy of Frantz Hals and the Ambassadors of Hans Holbein. It also made refit the landscaped garden.

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