Ancien hôtel d'Effiat en démolition, 26 rue Vieille du temple

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Hôtel Lepeletier, or l'Hôtel d'Effiat. In the middle of the XVI century. there was already a big house with a garden. belonging to the family of de Marle. Later, Marie de Fourcy, widow of Marshal d'Effiat, extends this mansion: to 1637 the architect Clement Métezeau built a very beautiful wing length of 20 m, the facade of which was 7 openings and 5 round windows, the so-called "Bull's-eye" in gorgeous dormer (pictured - in the middle). Since 1696 the mansion owned by the Finance Minister Claude Le Peletier under Louis XIV (after Colbert). On the advice of the royal architect Pierre Bullet in this period was extended garden and the entrance to the house (seen from a photo on the left) there was a bas-relief - an allegory on the trade issue. (. Claude Le Peletier over the 1668-1676 biennium was Prévôt des marchands - the leader of the Parisian merchants.) Now this is a bas-relief in the Louvre