Rue Saint-Florentin is a thoroughfare in the 1st and 8th arrondissement of Paris. The street took its name from the Duc de la Vrillière, Louis Phélypeaux, comte de Saint-Florentin, minister and secretary of state, who had his private mansion built there. For several years it housed the US Embassy in France, George C. Marshall and William Averell Harriman.

History

Rue Saint-Florentin

Rue Saint-Florentin was originally a cul-de-sac named "cul-de-sac de l'Orangerie". In 1730, part of the land bordering it (corresponding to the odd numbers) belonged to Louis XV and the other part (corresponding to the even numbers) to financier Samuel Bernard.

In 1758, when the Place de la Concorde was created, the impasse became "rue de l'Orangerie". It was also known as "petite rue des Tuileries".

Hôtel de Saint-Florentin
Hôtel de Talleyrand in 2007

It begins between 2, place de la Concorde and 258, rue de Rivoli. It ends at 271, rue Saint-Honoré, where it is extended by rue du Chevalier-de-Saint-George. The even-numbered side is in the 1st arrondissement, while the odd-numbered side is in the 8th arrondissement.

On the south east side the street is bordered by the Hôtel Saint-Florentin (also known as Hôtel de l'Infantado and "Hôtel de Talleyrand-Périgord".

Hôtel Saint-Florentin

No. 2: fr:Hôtel Saint-Florentin was built for Louis Phélypeaux, comte de Saint-Florentin around 1768 by architect Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin, to plans by architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel. In 1777 it was bought by Jacques-Charles de Fitz-James. In 1783 Natalya Golitsyna lived there who moved to Paris for the children's education.[1] Maria Anna zu Salm-Salm (1740-1816), widow of the 12th Duke of the Infantado, became the new owner. The Venetian Ambassador Almoro Pisani rented the premises from 1790 till October 1792, when he moved to London.[2] It seems Pétion de Villeneuve lived there until he fled in June 1793 and then Lazare Carnot moved in.[3][4][5][6] The Spanish consul José Martínez de Hervás became the new owner around 1800. The Prussian ambassador Girolamo Lucchesini lived there in 1801. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord bought it in 1812, and lived there with his mistress Dorothée de Courlande, his daughter Pauline de Talleyrand-Périgord and his cook Marie-Antoine Carême.[7] In 1838 the mansion was sold to James Mayer de Rothschild who never lived there but kept the cook.[8] His son Alphonse lived there with his wife and children. Till 1857 it was rented it out to Dorothea Lieven.[9] Édouard Alphonse de Rothschild inherited the mansion in 1906. In 1939 Jacqueline Piatigorsky - a member of the Rothschild banking family - left France. The mansion was requisitioned by the Naval Ministry of Vichy Government. After the war it was briefly used by Maurice Thorez. In 1949 George C. Marshall moved in. In November 1950, it was sold to the US Embassy in France.[10] Until 2007 it housed the U.S. Consulate in Paris (first replaced by other departments, then leased to various companies, including the American law firm Jones Day).[11]

Remarkable buildings and their inhabitants

Hôtel de la Marine - Paris
rue Saint-Florentin

References

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  2. d’Enquin, Ledeuil. “MÉSAVENTURES ET ARRESTATION DE L’AMBASSADEUR DE VENISE, LE 20 AOUT 1792.” Revue Historique, vol. 126, no. 1, 1917, pp. 70–78. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40941888. Accessed 8 Oct. 2023.
  3. Mémoires de B. Barère, p. 50
  4. Paris revolutionnaire
  5. Mémoires sur Carnot par son fils, p. 504
  6. Dictionnaire topographique et historique de l'ancien Paris, p.l 359
  7. Talleyrand, vie privée
  8. https://family.rothschildarchive.org/estates/15-2-rue-saint-florentin
  9. https://eman-archives.org/Guizot-Lieven/solr-search?q=florentin
  10. AMBASSADE ET CONSULATS DES ÉTATS-UNIS D’AMÉRIQUE EN FRANCE
  11. https://www.paristoric.com/index.php/paris-d-hier/hotels-particuliers/hotels-particuliers-tous/428-l-hotel-de-saint-florentin
  12. https://parisplusplus.com/paris/lhotel-de-la-marine-a-touch-of-versailles-in-the-heart-of-paris/
  13. Paris revolutionnaire
  14. ROBESPIERRE (Augustin)
  15. Mémoires de Charlotte Robespierre sur ses deux frères, p. 87.
  16. CHARLOTTE ROBESPIERRE ET SES « MÉMOIRES par Gabriel PIORO et Pierre LABRAGHERIE, p. 14.
  17. Hervé Leuwers (2014), Robespierre, p. 245.
  18. https://www.meisterdrucke.uk/fine-art-prints/French-Photographer/337940/Thadée-Natanson-and-his-wife-Misia-Godebska-in-the-drawing-room-of-their-apartment-in-the-rue-Saint-Florentin,-Paris,-c.1899-.html
  19. Paris revolutionnaire

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