Hôtel Matignon

The Hôtel Matignon is a mansion on the left bank of the Seine in Paris, in the neighborhood Faubourg Saint- Germain ( 7th arrondissement ). It serves the French Prime Minister official residence and residence.

The luxurious residential building was in 1720 who later became Marshal of Montmorency, Christian -Louis de Montmorency, prince de Tingry ( 1675-1746 ), son of the Maréchal de Luxembourg, in place of a previously owned by the Barons of Pouancé residence by architect Jean Courtonne build.

Later owners were from 1723 Jacques III. de Goyon († 1725) and after his death his son Jacques IV Francois Leonor de Goyon, who had acquired in 1715 by his marriage with the Monegasque Hereditary Princess Louise - Hyppolite Grimaldi the title Prince of Valentinois and 1731-1733 temporarily as Prince Jacques I of Monaco officiated before. following the death of his wife in favor of his son Honoré III abdicated from Monaco and up to his death returned to the Hôtel Matignon.

This bought in 1804 by his nephews, the former ballerina and former mistress of the Duke of Württemberg, Anne Eléonore Sullivan born Franchi, which as early as 1808 but resold to Talleyrand, who owned it until 1814. In that year it came into the possession of Napoleon Bonaparte, after the fall of the Empire in exchange for the Elysee Palace to the Duchess of Bourbon ( † 1822), which it inherited her niece Adélaïde d' Orléans, sister of the future Louis Philippe. Madame Adélaïde lived there until 1830. Afterwards they rented the mansion.