Hôtel de Soubise
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| Type | Hôtel particulier |
| Location | Paris, France |
| Coordinates | 48°51′38″N 2°21′30″E / 48.86056°N 2.35833°ECoordinates: 48°51′38″N 2°21′30″E / 48.86056°N 2.35833°E |
| Current tenants | Archives nationales |
| Completed | 1375 |
| Owner | French government |
The Hôtel de Soubise (pronounced: [otɛl də subiːz]) is a city mansion entre cour et jardin ([ɑ̃ːtʁ kuːʁ e ʒaʁdɛ̃]), located at 60 rue des Francs-Bourgeois, in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris.
The Hôtel de Soubise was built for the Prince and Princess de Soubise on the site of a semi-fortified manor house named the Grand-Chantier built in 1375 for connétable Olivier de Clisson, that had formerly been a property of the Templars. The site previously contained the Hôtel de Guise, the Paris residence of the Dukes of Guise, a cadet branch of the House of Lorraine. It was the birthplace of the last Duke, Francis Joseph, Duke of Guise, the son of Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans, Duchess of Alençon. He died in 1675 and the Guise estate passed to Marie de Lorraine who died at the Hôtel in 1688 having been born there in 1615.
On March 27, 1700, François de Rohan, prince de Soubise bought the Hôtel de Clisson, lately de Guise, and asked the architect Pierre-Alexis Delamair to remodel it completely. Works started in 1704. His wife Anne de Rohan-Chabot, one time mistress of Louis XIV (their affair is thought to have funded the purchase of the building) died here in 1709.
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