The Hôtel de Galliffet is a historic

hôtel particulier () is the French term for a grand urban mansion, comparable to a Townhouse (Great Britain), British townhouse. Whereas an ordinary (house) was built as part of a row, sharing party walls with the houses on either side and directly fronting on a ...

in the 7th arrondissement of

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, France.

History

The hotel was built from 1776 to 1792, for Alexandre de Galliffet, the President of the

Parlement of Aix-en-Provence The Parlement of Aix-en-Provence was the provincial ''parlement'' of Provence from 1501 to 1790. It was headquartered in Aix-en-Provence, which served as the ''de facto'' capital of Provence. History Provence was incorporated into the Kingdom of ...

who also built the Château du Tholonet in

Le Tholonet Le Tholonet (; ''Lou Toulounet'' and ''Lo Tolonet'' in Provençal) is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in southern France. Its inhabitants are called ''Tholonétiens''. Geography The commune is near Aix-en-Provence, and at the f ...

. It was designed by Etienne François Legrand. Subsequently, the hotel was the residence of Minister

Charles-François Delacroix Charles-François Delacroix (; or Lacroix; 15 April 1741 – 26 October 1805) was a French statesman who became Minister of Foreign Affairs under the Directory. The painter Eugène Delacroix was his fourth son, although doubts have been cast on h ...

, and thus the childhood home of General Charles-Henri Delacroix and painter

Eugène Delacroix Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( ; ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French people, French Romanticism, Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.Noon, Patrick, et al., ''Crossing the Channel: ...

. It was later the residence of

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (; ; 2 February 1754 – 17 May 1838), 1st Prince of Benevento, then Prince of Talleyrand, was a French secularization, secularized clergyman, statesman, and leading diplomat. After studying theology, he b ...

, who served as the Prime Minister of France in 1815. In 1972 the building was used as the Italian embassy. The hotel is now home to the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris.

References

Galliffet Houses completed in 1792 Buildings and structures in the 7th arrondissement of Paris {{France-struct-stub