Hôtel de Beauvais. Cour intérieure vue vers la rue

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This mansion was built in 1654 by Le Pautre arh.Antoine project for Catherine Linen (Catherine Bellier) - maid of honor to Anne of Austria. Famous for the lady that was the first in a series of mistresses of Louis XIV. In gratitude for the service the Queen appointed her to a life annuity in 2000 livres, and her husband, Pierre de Beauvais, Beauvais granted baronial titul.Hotya and became a baron, but not ceased to be a merchant: the mansion was originally designed with retail space on the ground floor - this facade depicted in an engraving in 1660, -. It was in 1660, standing on the balcony of the house, Francoise d'Obine saw for the first time of Louis XIV, later it will become Marquise de Maintenon, Madame de Montespan and his morganatic suprugoy.V 1706 Hôtel de Beauvais acquires Jean Orry, and then the Bavarian Ambassador M. van Eyck. Mozart during his first tour of Paris (1763-1764) five months he lived in this house with her father and sister.