The Hôtel de Boisgelin is a listed

hôtel particulier An ''hôtel particulier'' () is a grand townhouse, comparable to the Townhouse (Great Britain), British townhouse or mansion. Whereas an ordinary ''maison'' (house) was built as part of a row, sharing party walls with the houses on either side an ...

Aix-en-Provence Aix-en-Provence (, , ; oc, label= Provençal, Ais de Provença in classical norm, or in Mistralian norm, ; la, Aquae Sextiae), or simply Aix ( medieval Occitan: ''Aics''), is a city and commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. ...

Location

It is located at number 11 on the rue du Quatre Septembre, on the Place des Quatre Dauphins, in the

Quartier Mazarin The quartier Mazarin is a district in the centre of Aix-en-Provence, directly to the south of the cours Mirabeau, the principal boulevard in Aix. On the initiative of Archbishop Michel Mazarin, brother of the Cardinal Jules Mazarin and Archbisho ...

of Aix-en-Provence.''Provence'',

Le Petit Futé Petit Futé (founded 1976) is a series of French travel guides broadly equivalent to the Lonely Planet series in English or the competing French 'Guides du routard' series.''Encyclopedia of contemporary French culture'' Page 467 Alex Hughes, Keith ...

, 2009 p. 16

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History

It was designed by architects Pierre Pavillon (1612-1670) and Jean-Claude Rambot (1621-1694), and built for Louis Le Blanc de Montespin in 1650.René Borricand, ''Les Hôtels particuliers d'Aix-en-Provence'', 39 rue Espariat, 1971, p. 4

/ref> In 1697, it was purchased by Pierre-Joseph Laurens-Brue. That year, he commissioned architect Laurent Vallon (1652-1724) to design a grand staircase inside. It was later inherited by the Boisgelin family. It comes with a courtyard and a garden. In the garden, there is a fountain under the foliage, thus always in the shade in daytime.

Henri Dobler Henri Dobler (1863–1941) was a Switzerland, Swiss art collector, painter, poet and art critic. He is best known for refurbishing the Pavillon Vendôme in Aix-en-Provence, France, from 1906 to 1914. Biography Early life Henri Dobler was born in ...

, ''Le cadre de la vie mondaine à Aix-en-Provence aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles: Boudoirs et jardins'', F. Detaille, 1928, p. 11

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Heritage significance

It has been listed as a

monument historique ''Monument historique'' () is a designation given to some national heritage sites in France. It may also refer to the state procedure in France by which National Heritage protection is extended to a building, a specific part of a building, a coll ...

since 1964.

References

Hôtels particuliers in Aix-en-Provence Monuments historiques of Aix-en-Provence Houses completed in 1650 1650 establishments in France {{France-struct-stub