Saint-Florentin cheese hotel

The hotel of Saint-Florentin cheese (known as also hotel of Talleyrand-Périgord ) is located at Paris (1 {{er}} district), to the 2 Rue Saint-Florentin cheese. Forming the angle between this street and the Street of Rivoli, it is placed at the north-eastern angle of the Place of the Harmony.

When he imagined the overall plan of the future place Louis XV (which was to be renamed later on place of the Harmony), Angel-Jacques Gabriel had imagined, of share and others of the two vast buildings with colonnades framing the Royal Rue, to build two symmetrical hotels of which he had outlined the gauge and the frontages. An obligation of architectural symmetry was enacted by letters patent of June 21st 1757 and of October 30th 1758.

When Louis Phélypeaux (1705-1777), count de Saint-Florentin and future duke of Vrillière, Secretary of State at the House of the King of 1749 with 1775, addressed in 1767 to Jean-François-Therese Chalgrin to build her Parisian hotel, on a ground which had belonged to the financier Samuel Bernard, the architect followed closely the drawings of Gabriel to establish the frontage on the street of Rivoli. Work was completed in 1769.

To died from the count de Saint-Florentin, the hotel passed to the Duc of Fitz-James then, in 1787, with the duchess of Infantado. In 1793, one draws up there the section of Tileries of the salpetre handling. The opening of the street of Rivoli cut down it by its garden.

In 1812, the hotel was bought with Joseph de Hervas by Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord for the sum of 500.000 francs including 70.000 francs in cash and the remainder by extinction of old credits. It settled with the mezzanine however that the duchess of Dino occupied the second stage.

In 1814 and 1815, the Saint-Florentin cheese hotel, placed a time at the disposal of the tsar Alexandre Ier of Russia, was the framework of the negociations carried out by Talleyrand for return of the Bourbons. It is there that Talleyrand died in 1838.

The hotel was acquired at once, in July 1838, by James de Rothschild which paid it 1,2 million and made some, according to the word of Henri Heine, “Versailles of Parisian plutocracy”. This one rented there an apartment with the mezzanine with the princess of Lieven, by which it remained place of a political and diplomatic influence.

In the years 1860-1870, Alphonse de Rothschild made there carry out important transformations by the architects E. Small and Leon Ohnet. It in particular made there go up decorations coming from the house builds with Louveciennes for Madam of Barry by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux. These woodworks were carved by Métivier and Feuillet.

After the Second world war, the hotel was rented in 1948 with the Rothschild family by the government of the the United States which installed there in 1949 George C. Marshall Center, intended to manage the Marshall plan for the rebuilding of Europe, whose director for Europe, Averell Harriman, had installed his office in the Living room of the Eagle. The hotel also accommodated the first American mission near the Organization of the treaty of the North Atlantic (NATO). The hotel was bought by the United States on November 14th 1950. The noble stage of the southern wing points out the memory of George C. Marshall. The hotel shelters various services of the Ambassade from the United States in Paris. The consular section there remained several years but emptied the places in spring 2007.

Recently, the hotel, classified like historic building in 1981, was carefully restored grace in particular to the American foundation World Monuments Fund Europe and France.

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