Hôtel Thellusson

The Hôtel de Thellusson was an extremely luxurious mansion in Paris, Marie -Jeanne de Girardot Vermenoux (1736-1781), the owner of the Swiss banking George - Tobie de Thellusson (1728-1776) widow in 1780 by the architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux on had built a plot, which it had acquired in 1778 in the then No. 30 Rue de Provence (now the 9th arrondissement ). The entrance portal reached the residents and visitors of the Rue de Provence by a ten meter high triumphal arch.

After the death of the widow Thellusson her eldest son Jean- Isaac de Thellusson de Sorcy let (1764-1828) to complete the building, which was owned by the Thellussons remained even after the outbreak of the revolution, because they had Swiss nationality. However, they could live in it until the year 1797 again. Jean- Isaac sold it in 1802 to the General Joachim Murat, who had married in 1789 Bonaparte's youngest sister, Caroline, but it does - after he had been appointed Marshal of France and 1806 for Grand Duke of Berg 1804 - against the owned Napoleon's Palais de l ' Elysee and an additional sum of one million francs eintauschte.

The emperor gave the palace to the Russian Tsar Alexander I, the first Russian embassy under his advisor Charles -André Pozzo di Borgo housed there, which hosted glamorous balls in this framework. In 1818 Alexander I used it as a residence for himself.

The Hôtel de Thellusson was demolished in 1824 as part of the extension of the Rue Lafitte to the Rue Chantereine (now Rue de la Victoire ).