Hôtel Saint-Pol
The Hôtel Saint -Paul or Saint-Pol Hôtel in Paris from 1361 to 1364 by Duke Charles of Normandy, from 1364 built as Charles V King of France as his favorite residence.
Location
The Hôtel Saint -Paul was located in what is now the 4th arrondissement in Paris, almost at the then outskirts of the city, close to the Porte Saint -Antoine, and especially the Bastide Saint- Antoine, the Bastille, by some years after the Hôtel, 1370-1383, was built. The name comes from the church of Saint -Paul, which is also here, in the Rue Saint -Paul, was.
The Hôtel Saint -Paul touched the Rue Saint- Antoine, writhing around the Church Saint -Paul around, and stretched mainly along the parallel Rue Saint -Paul and Rue du turkey -y- Musse (now the Rue du Petit Musc ) until almost down to the Rue des Célestins that already touched the new city walls.
In the neighborhood of the Hôtel of the Covenant of Celestine stood ( in the southeast ), the Convention of the Beguines ( in the west), and behind 1475, the Hôtel de Sens, and to the north, on the opposite side of the Rue Saint- Antoine, the Hôtel des Tournelles.
Charles V moved the Hôtel Saint -Paul opposite the Palais de la Cité before, not only because it was quiet, not exposed to the stench of the city and hence the health was not as detrimental as the palace, but also because he assault after Étienne Marcel 1358 at the Palais a safer residence was looking for.
The buildings and the park
The Hôtel Saint -Paul was built on the ruins of a building that. Ludwig IX the saints ( king 1226-1270 ) came from. Charles V bought land added and did not build a single house, but a collection of several buildings, each of which had rooms that were devoted in part to the celebrations of the king, and all the rooms that the king, his family and were reserved for guests. The rooms were luxuriously decorated with precious woods, paintings, gold and silver, tapestries, embroidered with pearls. Two chapels were built, one for the king, one for Jeanne de Bourbon, the Queen. In addition, the Hôtel Saint -Paul Charles contained remarkable collection of books, should be the Centuries later, at the core of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Hôtel belonged to an immense park, eight gardens were created, which were separated from each other by galleries, which in turn decided to combine any two of the houses. There was a menagerie, an aquarium, aviary, which was given this place a peaceful and pastoral setting.
More history
After Charles' death, the Hôtel Saint -Paul of Charles VI was. the madmen ( King 1380-1422 ) continued to be inhabited. Here then the tragedy of the Bal des Ardents also took place on 28 January 1393 of his state of mind completely shattered.
After the expulsion of the Dauhpins Charles, later King Charles VII (reigned 1422-1461 ), of Paris by the Bourguignons ( 1418 ) orphaned, the Hôtel Saint -Paul. Louis XI. ( King 1481-1483 ) preferring to live in Plessis- lès -Tours, and in the castle of Vincennes, if he had to go to Paris. Charles VIII ( king 1483-1498 ), Louis XII. ( King 1498-1515 ) and Francis I ( king from 1515) resided mostly in the Loire Valley. The Hôtel Saint -Paul fell, in 1519 a portion was sold a few years later it was completely destroyed.
Today, the Hôtel Saint -Paul no trace exists. Only a few street names remind us of the former royal residence:
- Rue Saint Paul
- The Passage Saint -Paul
- Rue de l' Hôtel Saint -Paul
- Rue des Jardins Saint -Paul
- In which the king had placed his lion Rue des Lions Saint -Paul, which passes through the part of the former gardens of the Hôtel Saint -Paul