Hôtel d'Aumont

The Hôtel d'Aumont is a former hôtel particulier, at 7, rue de Jouy, in the 4th arrondissement of Paris; it was built as the seat of the ducs d'Aumont. It is sited south of the Marais.

At the beginning of the fifteenth century there was on part of this site a property at the Sign of the Die, belonging to the family of Cousinot, magistrates. In 1644 Michel-Antoine Scarron, conseiller du roi, and uncle of the burlesque poet Paul Scarron and father-in-law of the maréchal-duc d'Aumont, governor of Paris, found the old structure, on three adjoining properties, which he had assembled between 1619 and 1630, too old-fashioned for his requirements; though he had erected a party wall and constructed the left half of the present corps de logis as early as 1631, he rebuilt and extended it to create the present structure, built entre cour et jardin, to the designs of Louis Le Vau. Le Vau rearranged and completely refaced the earlier structures.

When the new building was completed in 1648, it was the duc d'Aumont who came to inhabit it, and he bought it outright from his father-in-law in 1656. For him it was enlarged and enriched by the architect François Mansart, who inserted a grand new staircase in the right wing, replaced the stairs in the corner pavilion, and provided it with decors painted by Charles Le Brun and Simon Vouet. The mason on-site, overseeing the new constructions was Michel Villedo. The name of André Le Nôtre is attached to its garden à la française; a garden has been remade linking the hôtel to the quai of the Seine.

Later, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, interior modernizations resulted in the present Cabinet neuf, currently the office of the president of the tribunal administratif.

Four ducs d'Aumont in succession lived at the hôtel, until the death in 1743 of Victoire-Félicité de Durfort, the wife of Louis-Marie-Augustin d'Aumont (1709–1782), who had married her in 1727: he sold the hôtel d'Aumont in 1756.

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