Hôtel Tubeuf - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Hôtel Tubeuf - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Hôtel Tubeuf or Hôtel Duret-de-Chevry is a hôtel particulier located at 8 Rue des Petits Champs in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris. It was built in 1635 to the designs of the French architect Jean Thiriot for , president of the .Ayers 2004, p. 57; Braham & Smith 1973, vol. 1, p. 224; Babelon 1996. It was unfinished, when in 1641 it was purchased by the financier Jacques Tubeuf, who sold it to Cardinal Mazarin in 1649. The latter expanded it and combined it with adjacent hôtels, creating the Palais Mazarin, which in 1721 became the Bibliothèque du Roi (King's Library).Ayers 2004, pp. 57–58. The Hôtel Tubeuf is now part of the complex of buildings forming the Richelieu site of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and was declared a monument historique in 1983. Read more on Wikipedia
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