Hôtel de Plessis-Bellière
Hôtel de Plessis-Bellière stands on Place de la Concorde in Paris’s eighth arrondissement, behind the western colonnade of Rue Royale. Its elegant façade faces one of the city’s grandest squares. The building forms part of an eighteenth-century architectural ensemble commissioned by Louis XV from Jacques-Ange Gabriel in 1758.
The western façade was intended for the Hôtel de la Monnaie, but its distance from the business district changed those plans. Four lots occupied the land behind it. Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux built this hôtel for David-Étienne Rouillé de l’Étang, a nobleman and treasurer-general. Construction reached completion in 1776. The property later passed through the family before Marie de Pastoret inherited it.
After her death in 1890, she left the hôtel to Pope Leo XIII for an apostolic nunciature. A contested will led to famous auctions in 1897. The original interior decoration was sold in 1898, while the façade gained protection as a classified historical monument in 1923. Since 1901, the building and adjoining Hôtel Cartier have housed the Automobile Club de France, the world’s oldest automobile club. Philadelphia preserves a replica designed by Horace Trumbauer and Julian Abele, now serving as its Free Library.
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