Ancien hôtel de Masson de Meslay - le portail sur la rue du Sentier

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A more accurate name - Nôtel de Rivié, because it is for the Secretary of the Royal T. de Rive, this house was built. Thomas de Rive (1653-1732) owes his social climbing friendship with Louvois, minister of Louis XIV. Rive made a fortune by supplying horses for the army, and after 20 years of diligent activity, in 1704, he gained the position of the royal secretary. His nephew, reconstructed building in the 1733-1739 biennium. In 1748, Etienne de Rive after death, the mansion passes to Antoine Masson de Meslay (1696-1779), Chairman of the Accounting Chamber, and then - to his descendants. In the first half of the XIX century. the whole street is populated textile entrepreneurs. The building loses its status as a family residence in 1833 it acquired the major negotiators Charles Legentil and Casimir Chevreux. They build on the building, the site of the garden there are warehouses, shops and offices, where commercial activities will boil down to the mid-twentieth century.