The Hôtel de Toulouse, former Hôtel de La Vrillière is located at 1 rue de La Vrillière, in the

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. It was built between 1635 and 1640 by

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, for

Louis Phélypeaux, seigneur de La Vrillière Louis Phélypeaux (1598–1681), seigneur de La Vrillière, marquis de Châteauneuf and Tanlay (1678), comte de Saint-Florentin, was a French politician. He was the son of Raymond Phélypeaux (†1629), seigneur d'Herbault et de La Vrillière. He ...

. Originally, the mansion had a large garden with a formal

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to the southwest.

History

In 1712, Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Count of Toulouse (son of

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and

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) acquired the Hôtel de La Vrillière and commissioned

Robert de Cotte Robert de Cotte (1656 – 15 July 1735) was a French architect-administrator, under whose design control of the royal buildings of France from 1699, the earliest notes presaging the Rococo style were introduced. First a pupil of Jules Hard ...

, ''Premier Architecte du Roi'', to redesign it and bring important transformations to its interior. After the death of Toulouse in 1737, the Hôtel became the Parisian residence of his son,

Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon (16 November 1725 – 4 March 1793) was the son of Louis Alexandre de Bourbon and his wife Marie Victoire de Noailles. He was therefore a grandson of Louis XIV of France and his mistress, Madame de Montespan. From ...

, and the birthplace of the latter's daughter,

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. The ''

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'', who was the Duke of Penthièvre's widowed daughter-in-law, also resided there until the

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. Confiscated as a ''bien national'' ("national property") during the French Revolution, the Hôtel de Toulouse became the ''Imprimerie de la République'' in 1795. An imperial decree signed by

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on 6 March 1808, authorised the sale of the Hôtel de Toulouse to the

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, which made it its official seat in 1811.

Filming location

The Hôtel de Toulouse was the site of a scene from Sofia Coppola's ''

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'' with its famous ''Galerie dorée''Article in L'Express/L'Expansio

(French) (one of Robert de Cotte's masterpieces) as a room in a palace of her youth. Other films, both French, shot at the site are '' Vatel (film), Vatel'' and '' Tous les matins du monde''.

Gallery of residents

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Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse Louis Alexandre de Bourbon (6 June 1678 – 1 December 1737), a legitimated prince of the blood royal, was the son of Louis XIV and of his mistress Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan. At the age of five, he became grand admiral of ...

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Image:Marie Victoire de Noailles, comtesse de Toulouse - Musée Condé (PE384A).jpg, Toulouse's wife, Marie Victoire Image:Portrait of Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon by Vigée Lebrun.jpg, Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, "Mademoiselle de Penthièvre"

References

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Toulouse Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Par ...

Buildings and structures in the 1st arrondissement of Paris Buildings and structures completed in 1640 1640 establishments in France