Hôtel de Soubise
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The Hôtel de Soubise is a city mansion entre cour et jardin. It is located at 60 Rue des Francs-Bourgeois in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, France.
The corps de logis
The Salon ovale de la princesse, by Germain Boffrand, with paintings by Charles-Joseph Natoire
The design of the building
the cour d'honneur of the Hôtel de Soubise
Marie de Lorraine was the daughter of Charles de Lorraine, Duke of Guise and Henriette Catherine de Joyeuse and the last member of the House of Guise, a branch of the House of Lorraine.
Hôtel de Soubise
…last Duke, Francis Joseph, Duke of Guise, the son of Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans, Duchess of Alençon. He died in 1675 and the Guise estate passed to Marie de Lorraine who died at the Hôtel in 1688 having been born there in 1615. On March 27, 1700, François de Rohan, prince de Soubise bought the Hôtel de Clisson…
Drawing by Daniel Dumonstier (c. 1627)
Painting done by Louis-Edouard Rioult (c. 1839)