Hôtel de Marigny
The Hôtel de Marigny is a grand house in Paris, at 23 Avenue de Marigny, just across from the Élysée Palace. It is used as a state guest house for visiting dignitaries and has belonged to the French government since 1972. Before that, state guests stayed at the Grand Trianon starting in 1959.
In 1869, Baron Gustave de Rothschild bought two townhouses for 2.7 million francs: 21 Avenue de Marigny and 14 Rue du Cirque, together about 40,000 square feet. In 1872 he merged them into one property and added more buildings on part of the site. He also bought the townhouse at 13 Avenue de Marigny in 1879. From 1873 for nearly ten years, the site was developed under the architect Alfred-Philibert Aldrophe.
The Rothschild family sold the property in 1971. President Georges Pompidou had it bought to be used as a state house. During a 1978 state visit, Romanian President Nicolae Ceaușescu was reported to have stolen many decorations, including ornaments, paintings, lamps and vases, and even torn off the gold taps.
Today the Hôtel de Marigny has a main building with a two-story wing at right angles, sitting above a large basement for services. The façade’s main feature is the central section: the entrance to the main lobby sits beneath the raised ground floor, while the upper part shows four Corinthian columns framing a bay window and two niches, with a sculpted frontispiece.
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